Mailing a new member of a group - %mail% not working

Question

Hello!

I've made a simple business rule:

AFTER adding a member to a group
IF Operation Succeeded THEN
Send email notification

In the activity scope, I have selected the group in question, and selected "This Group Object".

However, when I add a user to the group, I get:

Business Rules: 1 rule encountered while processing your request
'Send DuoSecurity Info': Send e-mail notification (Info about DuoSecurity)
Resolving value references in the notification recipient address '%mail%' resulted in an empty string.
There are no recipients specified.

If I change the properties of the activity scope to "Members of this group", I get an "Operation Succeeded", but the business rule isn't triggered.
How do I make this work?

Regards,
Erlend

Answer 1

Hello Erlend,

The thing is that adding a member to a group means modifying the group, not the user, thus the %mail% value reference will be resolved into the e-mail of the group (if it has any), not the e-mail of the new member. To implement what you want, you need to send the e-mail message with the help of a script. For this purpose, add the Run a program or PowerShell script action to your Business Rule and paste the following script in the Script field:

$subject = "You have been added to Group %name%" # TODO: modify me
$bodyText = @"
Dear {0},

You have been added to group %name%.

Please do not reply to this e-mail, it has been sent to you for notification purposes only.
"@ # TODO: modify me

# Bind to the new member
$memberPath = @"
Adaxes://%member%
"@
$member = $Context.BindToObject($memberPath)

# Get email address of the new member
try
{
    $mail = $member.Get("mail")
}
catch
{
    return # No email address specified
}

# Insert the new member name in the e-mail body
$userFullName = $member.Get("name")
$body = [System.String]::Format($bodyText, $userFullName)

$Context.SendMail($mail, $subject, $body, $NULL)

In the script, modify the following to match your requirements:

• $subject - specifies the e-mail message subject,
• $bodyText - specifies a template for the e-mail message body. The {0} placeholder in the body will be replaced with the name of the new group member.