Overview

Use the Send Email action node to send emails to specified addresses;

Properties Tab

Basic Settings

All fields can be either literal values or expressions encapsulated within ${} syntax, for example ${in.MyValue}.

Field	Description	Example Value
Name	Name given to the Email Action Node. This will be displayed on the actionflow canvas.	MyEmailer
From	The email address the email will be sent from. This should match the email address specified as the login email in your Outbound Emailer, see Email Account.	notifications@phixflow.com
To	The email address(es) the email will be sent to. Multiple addresses must be comma separated, if an expression evaluates to a list of email addresses then this will be converted automatically to the correct format.	sale@phixflow.com
CC	the cc email addresses. Provided as a comma-separated list if multiple values are required, if an expression evaluates to a list then this will be converted automatically to the correct format. This is an optional field.
BCC	the cc email addresses. Provided as a comma-separated list if multiple values are required, if an expression evaluates to a list then this will be converted automatically to the correct format. This is an optional field.
Subject	the email's subject.	// Send the message followed by a timestamp MyEmailer has run successsfully_ + ${now()}
Message	the content of the email. This can accept text direct as an input as well as	// Sends the content of the attribute MyMessage from // the in pipe ${in.MyMessage}
is HTML	defines whether to treat the email as HTML or plain text. The default setting is plain text, indicated by the toggle being switched off. Treat the Message as HTML. Treat the Message as plain text.

Verifying Emails

It is possible to check an email has successfully been sent using the Email tab at the top of the system console. System Console → Email Tab. See System Console

Attachments

Currently unsupported in Actionflows. To send an email with an attachment see Sending Emails.

Built-in Error Handling

Basic validation is performed to ensure that email addresses are well-formed. If they are not this will cause the actionflow to fail immediately. At least one address must be resolved from amongst the to, cc and bcc.

Other errors, such as email addresses for accounts that don’t exist, won’t cause a failure of the actionflow but they will result in the email sending not succeeding.

Learn More

For links to all pages in this topic, see Understanding Actionflows.

Terminology changes in progress

As part of the redesign of PhixFlow, we are changing the following terms:

dashboard → screen
stream → table
stream attributes → attributes
stream item → record
stream set → recordset
stream view → view
stream item action → record-action
stream action → table-action
driver class → database driver

Email Action