Email Endpoints are available in PhixFlow version 11.3+

What is an Email Endpoint?

  Email Endpoints are a type of Actionflow that run in response to an incoming email and can read data into tables. They include the ability to handle attachments and save these to a file table. 

How does an Email Endpoint work?

1. An Email Account(s) must be set up in your application to receive incoming emails
   1. The email account setup should be:
      1. Type: choose Inbound
      2. On Email Received: choose Trigger an email endpoint actionflow
      3. Email Endpoint Action: choose your   Email Endpoint
2. If the emails are to be saved, a  Table must be created with appropriate attributes for the incoming emails, e.g. id, from, to, cc, subject, body, folderId
3. To allow PhixFlow to save attachments, a must be created
   1. The above Table and File Table must be related, see Relationship
4. Upon receiving an email, the   Email Endpoint will run and perform the action(s) as specified with the Email Endpoint Actionflow, such as saving each incoming email as a record in a table 
   1. If saving to a table, each received email saves as a seperate record

Creating an Email Endpoint

Email endpoints must be made using the specific option on the  Actionflow homepage to ensure the set of predefined input parameters are configured on the  incoming connection point.

1. Create a new   Email Endpoint on the  Actionflow homepage using the  option
   1. 
2. Set a unique name and provide a useful description
3. Configure the endpoint to perform the required tasks on receiving of incoming emails, for example, save all records to a  Table
   1. Note: Email Endpoints cannot contain  Open Screen actions

Saving Attachments

Attachments can be saved in a seperate .

1. Click   Properties in the Actionflow toolbar to open the settings for the Email Endpoint on the right
   1. For the full Properties list, see Email Endpoint Properties

2. In the Basic Settings, in the Save Attachments to field, set the  File Table that incoming email attachments should be saved to

   1. Create a new  File Table by clicking the  icon or choose an existing table using the icon or selecting from the drop down list.
   2. When creating a  File Table to save attachments to, a folderId attribute is automatically created
      1. This attribute will also populate on the  Table where the email records are saved to for each email received and is used to link the attachment(s) saved in the  File Table to the email fields (e.g. id, from, to, cc, subject, body, folderId) saved in the  Table

Displaying Emails

File Display

File Gallery Display

Worked Example

Coming Soon.

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