Using Kentico's Email Templates in Custom Code

by Unknown November 16, 2015 2 comments

Kentico has an email template feature that is used in many areas of the CMS. When a user registers, posts to the forum, or places an order in the E-Commerce system, they are sent an email from a predefined template that has been filled with their information. I'll show you how easy it is to leverage this feature in your own code.

First, create the email template:

Then, this is the code to send email:

public void DoSendFormDataToEmail(string emailTo, DataRow replacement)
{
    EmailMessage msg = new CMS.EmailEngine.EmailMessage();
    CMS.EmailEngine.EmailTemplateInfo eti = EmailTemplateProvider.GetEmailTemplate(EmailTemplateCodeForSendingFormDataToEmail, SiteContext.CurrentSiteID);
    if (eti != null)
    {
        var resolver = MacroResolver.GetInstance();
        resolver.SetAnonymousSourceData(replacement);

        msg.EmailFormat = EmailFormatEnum.Both;
        msg.From = eti.TemplateFrom;
        msg.Recipients = emailTo;
        msg.Subject = eti.TemplateSubject;
        msg.Body = eti.TemplateText;

        EmailSender.SendEmailWithTemplateText(SiteContext.CurrentSiteName, msg, eti, resolver, false); 
        EventLogProvider.LogEvent("I", "Sending Newsletter Signup form data", "CREATEOBJ");
    }

}

 How to call it:

DataTable dt = new DataTable();
dt.Columns.Add("InsertedDateTime");
dt.Columns.Add("FirstNameValue");
dt.Columns.Add("LastNameValue");
dt.Columns.Add("EmailValue");
DataRow drRow = dt.NewRow();
drRow["InsertedDateTime"] = DateTime.Now.ToString();
drRow["FirstNameValue"] = sb.SubscriberFirstName;
drRow["LastNameValue"] = sb.SubscriberLastName;
drRow["EmailValue"] = sb.SubscriberEmail;
DoSendFormDataToEmail(SendFormDataToEmail, drRow);

That's all. Hope it works for you.

Note: Kentico 8.2 


For more info about Kentico Macro here:
http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/kentico-8-technology-macro-improvements
Happy Coding :)