Easy to Generate & Maintain Email in SAP (ABAP + HTML/CSS)
Easy to Generate & Maintain Email in SAP (ABAP + HTML/CSS)
Generating & Maintaing E-mail through ABAP is always dirty code while buildling email body with text-elements/message class.
Even simple plain text Email results in lots of irrelevant code in ABAP, so generating modern e-mails (HTML/CSS/images) in abap can be a nightmare for anyone.
easyHtmlEmail provides a helper class Zcl_easy_email which helps the ABAP developer to consume HTML template to build email.
The static part of email will no longer be handled by ABAP code, developer only need to worry about dynamic values in email.
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Note:
Zcl_easy_emailis Built on Top of Function ModuleWWW_HTML_MERGER, so Pros & Cons are inherited. Refer WWW_HTML_MERGER
SMW0.
Demo HTML templates is taken from BBBootstrap public e-mail templates
Maintain config in Table ZMAIL_TEMP_CONF.(Optional)
Create instance of Zcl_easy_email and set template.
DATA : go_EASY_EMAIL TYPE REF TO ZCL_EASY_EMAIL.
CREATE OBJECT go_EASY_EMAIL .
go_EASY_EMAIL->set_subject(
title = 'mail subject '
).
go_EASY_EMAIL->set_template(
p_template = 'ZTESTEMAIL'
p_mastertemplate = 'ZTESTEMAILMASTER'
).
Pass in Placeholder & dynamic value pairs.
go_EASY_EMAIL->replace_placeholder(
EXPORTING
placeholder_name = '!VBELN!'
replacement_type = 'R' "replace placeholder with single value
single_value = ' 23412 '
).
go_EASY_EMAIL->replace_placeholder(
EXPORTING
placeholder_name = '!PRICE!'
replacement_type = 'R' "replace placeholder with single value
single_value = ' 1234.90
).
data : multi_line TYPE soli_tab,
line TYPE soli.
line = 'LINE 1 : LINE1 </br>'.
APPEND LINE to multi_line.
line = 'LINE 2 : LINE2 </br>'.
APPEND LINE to multi_line.
go_EASY_EMAIL->replace_placeholder(
EXPORTING
placeholder_name = '!LOG!'
replacement_type = ' ' "replace placeholder with multiple Lines
multi_line = multi_line
).
Build email , add recipients, send the mail
go_EASY_EMAIL->add_email( email = p_email ).
go_EASY_EMAIL->build_body( ).
go_EASY_EMAIL->send_mail( 'X' ).
E-mail visible in SOST
Report
zeasy_email_demodemonstrate the usage of classZcl_easy_email.
This solution is helpful for non-S/4 system
SAP has introduces much better solution E-MAIL templates + CDS view in S/4 systems more info.