Trigger to send email

Question

I have been working on our Opportunity page to add a custom checkbox if the opportunity is conditionally approved. What I would hopefully like to do to sew this up would be to use a trigger to send an email to the opportunity owner saying to resolve questions before full approval.

The trigger should send the email after the page is saved with the conditional approval checkbox checked. I have it to where the trigger does send an email, but I had to send it to my email for testing. What I'm hoping to find is how to get the owners email address and the ID number for the url link in the email.

I have done a lot of searching and there are a lot of things out there, but nothing that I see that focuses on what I need. Can anyone help with code examples or direct me where to look? I'm still pretty new at SalesForce and Java, so hopefully it won't be too in depth. Like I mentioned, the trigger does send out email when the page is saved correctly, I just need to see if I can get the owners address and page ID (15 chars?) for the link.

Thank you again for any help you can be!!!

Kurt

Answer 1

Make a new Email Template (type it into search in setup), start with type = text.

Subject could be: you have to fix {!Opportunity.Name} Body:

Opportunity {!Opportunity.Name} needs your attention (conditional approval). Please log in and fix it!

{!Opportunity.Link}
{!Opportunity.Id}

You can also verify whether the email will look the way you think it should:

You'll be able to use such templates in workflow. Roughly speaking workflow consists of triggering condition and action (there can be multiple actions: field updates, email messages etc). (Once you've set up the workflow remember to click "Activate", common rookie mistake).

Just read up a bit about them in Setup / Help and come back (edit this question) if you need more help?