Zimlet - Send Contact Information Via Email

[b3llb0y]

I would like to create a zimlet where you could drag a contact onto it. At this point it would open a new email, and paste the contact information into the body of the email.

That way, if someone outside my company wants a contact I can at least give it to them easily.


Is this possible?

[tdesorbaix]

Of course it is possible. And rather easy to do.
Here is a zimlet sample that should help you :
Zimlet to prepare a formated email

[reinhard]

Hi,

if you could manage this and made a working zimlet, I would be interested in it.

Can you post it to the zimlet gallery and let me know please?

Thanks for your affort

[koenvereeken]

I've made a Zimlet that enables you to drag a contact, type in subject and body and mail the message with the contact as VCF in attached.

You can find it here:
Get or contribute Zimlets, UI themes, and languages in the Zimbra Gallery - Contact Mailer

Grts, Koen

[iway]

Hi, thanks for the Zimlet.

It does not work for me, though...

Nothing happens, I can not drag anything onto it (red, instead of green). It does not open anything when clicking.

Any ideas?

[MikelBGI]

Originally Posted by iway

Hi, thanks for the Zimlet.

It does not work for me, though...

Nothing happens, I can not drag anything onto it (red, instead of green). It does not open anything when clicking.

Any ideas?

I had this same issue. There's a borken zimlet that is stopping other zimlets from executing. Disable them one by one, until you find the broken zimlet. For me it was the rootly news.

Once that broken one was disabled the other zimlets worked.

[kaltera]

I think it would be more simple to begin from the attachmail Zimlet as it would be integrated in the "Add attachment" when composing a new mail.

The new tab in the attachment popup would allow the user to browse within its contacts and select the one he wants to add.


The problem I have with the "contact attachment" zimlet is that you normally attach a vcard in a mail that has already a discussion. Usually you say to someone after a discussion that you attach the contact in the next e-mail so you can keep

However, with this zimlet, it's a complete new mail that is being created and you don't have the discussion.

This zimlet is, in my opinion, a first step to attach a vcard to an e-mail and this is really great that someone tried to solve this missing part of Zimbra

[MikelBGI]

Upgraded to the new Zimbra and now the mailcontact zimlet is broken. This was a very useful zimlet as it allows people to keep the BB up to date with out the BEX extentions.

Any word on if this will be updated, or if Zimbra plans to allow the emailing of vCard attachments, which I agree is the best solution, and most standardized.

PS This seemed to be a feature in 4.5 - why is it not anymore????

[MikelBGI]

Got it to work in 6.01

Undeploy the zimlet, then re-deploy. Viola!