Send Email to a Group of People using nlapiSendEmail

The customer can follow steps below to send out an email to a number of people. For this sample, assume that user wants to send email to their company's managers.

1. Use a search. For example there is a checkbox in their employee record which will tell that the employee is a manager.
2. Use nlapiSearchRecord and obtain all the emails of the managers
3. Create an array of emails and pass it onto the CC or BCC parameter of nlapiSendEmail

Sample Code Snippet:

function sendEmail(type) {
 var filters = new Array();
 filters[0] = new nlobjSearchFilter('custbody_ismanager', null, 'is', 'T');

 var columns = new Array();
 columns[0] = new nlobjSearchColumn('email');

 results = nlapiSearchRecord('employee', null, filters, columns);

 var emailArray = new Array();

 for (var i in results) {
  emailArray[i] = results[i].getValue('email');
 }

 nlapiSendEmail(-5, 1, 'Test', 'Test', emailArray, null, null, null);
}

 

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