Send the mailing of an online questionnaire

Version without programming

This manipulation is possible, but not very easy, so in practice, we prefer to proceed by program, as indicated in the second part of this document, even if it is a little more complicated to set up.

Step 1: prepare the template for the questionnaire sheet.
The Storga mailbox that will be used to send emails must have one or more associated address books. Each address book corresponds to a report, at the level of the form for defining the fields of the report, the button 'choose the fields defining a directory' allows you to specify which field contains the email address, as well as the first and last name of the recipient. For at least one of the address books, these same fields must be found in the template of the questionnaire file.

Step 2: we create the files (one per mailing recipient)
To do this, we use either the 'Duplicate' function from the contextual menu of the skin template (operation to be detailed), or an applet with a Storga program.

Step 3: prepare an email with the recipient 'Form' and the URL field positioned at 'To the online form'

Step 4: select the files, then press the 'Send' button of the email.

The advantage compared to the usual systems, is that the recipient receives an email with a link that brings him in a single click on the page of his form to be completed, and that it can be pre-filled.
So we don't waste our time by asking to open an account, to log in, or to re-enter our name and other information.

By program

Here is the frame of a program which prepares a new mail which will be added just under the current form ('new_msg' instruction), then browse all the lines of a report whose identifier is 'a / b / c' ( 'report' instruction), and for each line, create a record by copying the 'x / y / z' type record ('new_form' instruction), which will be placed in a stack itself under the current form.
The form fields will be pre-filled from the data in the report line ('copy_fields' option), and a recipient will be added to the email. The email will contain a link at the bottom which allows each recipient to fill in the form associated with it ('msg_form_to' instruction).

var Str fid := form_id
var Str sid := string datetime
new_msg after fid
  msg_from_mailbox := "identifiant_storga_de_la_boite_aux_lettre"
  report "a/b/c"
    field Str prenom nom email
    new_form "x/y/z" copy_fields after fid stack sid from prenom+" "+nom
      msg_form_to prenom+" "+nom+" <"+email+">"