Sending email and setting calendar from trigger

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Sending email and setting calendar from trigger

Kati Sarab

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November 10, 2010 at 5:09 am

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Hi
I want to create a trigger in my Absence table so when an absence inserted, it sends an email to the employee and set the absence type reminder in his outlook calendar.
Would you please help me?
Thanks

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nigelrivett SSCertifiable Points: 5472 More actions · Answer 1

I wouldn't do this in a trigger.

Use the trigger to insert into a table then have a scheduled job which polls the table and does the processing when an entry appears.

In that way you have a record of what's been processed and done hold up/error the system due to email issues.

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Kati Sarab Grasshopper Points: 20 More actions · Answer 2

Thanks SSC

But I still do not know how to write the code to make the calendar reminder on the day of absence

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736479 More actions · Answer 3

You will have to look up the format for a calendar entry. This isn't a SQL issue, but rather a mail construction issue. Once you have that, you can construct that and attach it to the mail message.

Adiga One Orange Chip Points: 27284 More actions · Answer 4

These examples should get you started.

http://blog.netnerds.net/2008/02/create-a-basic-sql-server-2005-trigger-to-send-e-mail-alerts/[/url]

http://www.datasprings.com/Resources/ArticlesInformation/CreatingEmailTriggersinSQLServer2005.aspx

Pradeep Adiga
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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 5

i thought this was interesting; from what i read on the Wikipedia you have to create a plain text attachment, with specific tags/formats inside that file, and the name of the file ends in .ics

so you have to create a file as an attachment, and then attach it to the email you were going to send. outlook /thunderbird/whatever mail program which can handle the iCalendar format will interpret the file accordingly.

Lowell

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