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What's Your Favorite Trigger Action in WebNative Venture

Posted by Robert Sullivan on Thu, Apr 15, 2010 @ 09:15 AM
  
  
  
 
I just got back from a road trip to a new client site. Training is getting so much more
involved as the programs have more and more built in functionality. Xinet always 
seems to have multiple ways to accomplish whatever your task might be. The jump
to Suite 16 is big, and aside from the newer version of MySQL ( It's version 5 now )
and all that new power, we now have a combined web GUI for FullPress, 
WebNative and Venture.

We're expanding training classes to include several more exercises within each 
application for a more 'hands-on' experience during training. It's true of learning any
new skill, the more you can touch it, the easier it will be to remember later on in
real world situations. We're creating challenges that have more than one way to resolve
and the trainees can use any means available to them to complete the assignment.

I'm finding that there are favorites as far as Trigger Actions. Mine use to be the
'setdatafield' Action. As of last week my new favorite Action is the
'inherit-parent-metadata'
Xinet has a sample of it on their web site and it's proving to be very cool. So I'd like to
do a very unscientific mini survey. You can answer here with comments or email
me directly.
What is your most used Trigger Action in Venture. And...
is there something you "want" in an Action.
Please let me know.

-Sully
 

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COMMENTS

Hi Sully, some of us aren't coders and rely on the built in features, so as much as Xinet adding the HTML emails as an action, we have no idea how to change the code to just do a HTML email rather than the move as well. 
 
So with that in mind I would love an action that is a simple HTML email that contains a pic of asset that we can place on a template of our choice (i.e. we create the html with the variables in and paste it in) 
 
Help us simple people please :)

posted @ Wednesday, September 22, 2010 3:05 PM by tele2002


Thanks for the comments Gary. I'm also 'not a coder' but I can copy paste with 
the best of 'em. Xinet.com has a great series of tech notes that really help us here. 
One in particular by Carl Smith from a few years ago should get you exactly what 
you're looking for. 
 
TN # 229: 
Adding a Custom Action to Send a File as a MIME E-Mail Attachment from a Xinet WebNative Server 
 
You'll have to follow along to a couple of other links to download and install a Python script 
and there are clear instructions on how to create this new Trigger Action. Give it a try. 
I did it a couple of years ago, and I am seriously... not-a-coder. 
Just ask anyone from the NAPC Development Team! 
 
-Sully

posted @ Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:12 AM by Sully


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