Help with inserting a collection then sending an email using Aldeed Autoform

help
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I"m using autoform and trying to insert a collection then using onsubmit hook call a server method to send an email based on the collections i’m inserting. Is this possible to do. I’m looking at the autoform documentation and I see where you can use type method on the template. The only problem is I want to store the contact information in a collection than send the emails out. The examples I’ve seen seem to send the emails only then reset the form. Any help would be appreciated.

2

Use AutoForm.hook and the onSuccess option to do a Meteor.call() when your autoform has completed. Or You can use matt33’s collection hook to do a Collection.after.insert( function(doc,userId){}); Both are pretty great ways to solve the \issue.

3

thanks I used the meteor call option and was able to accomplish what I needed.

4

Hi ajlaz, can you please share with us how u solve the problem. Am having the same problem.

5

I used onSuccess in my collection hook, then within my meteor call I queried the collection and looped through each email sending it out from within the method call. Im using pretty emails package and I have a mailgun account also to send emails out.

client.js
var collectionHooks = {

onSuccess: function(formType, result) {
Meteor.call(‘sendEmailInvite’);

}

}
AutoForm.addHooks(‘insertCollectionForm’, collectionHooks);

//server.js
Meteor.methods({
sendEmailInvite: function () {
console.log("inside sendEmailInvite ");
var emails = EmailsCollection.findOne({createdBy: this.userId});
this.unblock();

_.each(emails.invite, function(emailData){
  console.log("sending email to: "+emailData.email);
  PrettyEmail.send( 'call-to-action', {
    to: emailData.email,
    subject: '',
    heading: '',
    message: '',
    buttonText: '',
    buttonUrl: ''
  });
})

}
});

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6

Thanks, you are a lifesaver.
But having difficult reading from the database using emailData plus, am not using the prettyEmail stuff.

7

This should be done on the server side? If you are then emailData should reference your list of emails stored in the db. In my case I have a invites embedded document that contains emails.

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Check out the email package in the official Meteor docs: http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/email.