Oracle Fusion Middleware

As promised in my previous post – Adding HTML Attachment To An Email Activity On Bpel 10g, in this post I will explain how to poll a file from the local OS and send it as an attachment.
For my example, I’ve created a simple WORD (.doc) file and put it under my Linux server. 

So here also, create a new Bpel process and drag the Email activity into the process flow. Fill in the required information:

Double click on the new added Email activity and change the amount of attachments from 2 into 1:

Go to the source of the Email activity: Right click on the Email activity->View->Go to Source:

Scroll down until you will get the 3 elements: MimeType/BodyPartName/ContectBody:

Each one of the elements, responsible for the attachment configuration:

MimeType – will set the Attachment type and it’s content. It is an internet standard.
BodyPartName – will set the file name.
ContectBody – will read the content of the file

Now we need to set those elements so our attached document can be send. Change the values as follows:
For MimeType, change the expression to be: string(‘application/msword; charset=UTF-8’):

For BodyPartName change the expression to be: string(‘AttachWord.doc’):

For ContentBody change the expression to be: ora:readFile(‘file:///tmp/files/AttachWord.doc’):

Save, Build, Deploy and run.
You can see that the mail has 1 attachment with the doc file:

Good Luck
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