Timeline for How to access a VF page as PDF within trigger/scheduled APEX
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| Aug 14, 2013 at 19:20 | vote | accept | Richard N | ||
| Aug 14, 2013 at 19:20 | comment | added | Richard N | I forgot to update this...I finally ended up creating a VF page and a button which has access to getContent() and that worked for us...but for most other requirements, the solution given by Phil should work too so I will mark this as the solution. | |
| Jul 23, 2013 at 14:48 | comment | added | Phil Hawthorn | Yes, it will do from a Scheduled job - you need to pass it in as part of the initial state as per the post I refer to in my previous comment and ensure that your session doesn't expire before the scheduled job runs. | |
| Jul 23, 2013 at 14:33 | comment | added | Richard N | Hi Phil, I did try this before as well and tried again a lot yesterday....UserInfo.getsession() returns blank! I created a VF page and added a button and that worked fine...Not fully automated but it will need to do for now. | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 19:51 | comment | added | Phil Hawthorn | I think you are only missing this from your request: request.setHeader('Authorization', 'OAuth ' + sessionId); but as per this post salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/14042/… you'll need to make sure you pass the session id in | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 19:37 | comment | added | Richard N | Yeah good times :) I have issues no what which approach...I tried hard to look at an example of making a GET request by passing a SF user/password but did not find out. The 302 response shows that it wants be to pass in authentication information as well. | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 19:28 | comment | added | Phil Hawthorn | You could try using a workflow 'field update' to auto-populate the email field on the object that you're sending. Failing that, I would have thought a trigger to auto populate it would be less code than what you're trying to do with the callout (which btw, might be failing because you're not authenticating your web service call) | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 19:18 | comment | added | Richard N | Yes Phil. You are right. It looks like the email recipient needs to be present on an email field on the object which uses the workflow So I can't access the email fields on the Accounts...rats! | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 18:52 | comment | added | Phil Hawthorn | The downside is that you'd have to have some reference to a Contact on the Invoice__c record. You could also try a field type of 'Email Field' on the Invoice (but I think it has to be on the Invoice) but I'm not sure how the recipientType in the email template would behave with that. I haven't time to test it i'm afraid, but it definitely works with a Contact lookup. | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 18:42 | comment | added | Richard N | Thanks so much Phil. It looks like this could work. The only thing is that the recipient email comes from a field on the Account object(Every customer has one account and one field containing this email). Is there any way I can access that field here and set it as the To: address?Thanks! | |
| Jul 22, 2013 at 18:28 | history | edited | Phil Hawthorn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2013 at 18:11 | history | answered | Phil Hawthorn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |