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Anto HotelbedsAnto Hotelbeds 

Case description in HTML when sending apex email

Hi,

 

I have a surely easy requirement but I cant manage to get it. I have my case, and I need to send an email (though Apex) with the case description (between other fields). I have my case description with line breaks as follows:

 

"Hello hello hello



And two two two


Three
Three"

 

I send the email with the following code:

 

 

String HTMLDesc=case2.Description.escapeHtml3();
mail.setToAddresses(toAddresses);
mail.setSubject('YYYYYou have been involved in the XML Case #'+Case2.CaseNumber);
mail.setHtmlBody('<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><table><tr><td>You are receiving this e-mail because you have been added to the referenced XML Support case. If you wish to post a comment to the case, please respond to the unique email address provided for this case without modifying the subject. </td></tr></table><br><table style="width:100%;border-collapse: collapse;"><tr><td style="padding:5px 0;width:140px;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;">Case Description:</td><td style="padding:5px 0;width:560px;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;">'+HTMLDesc+'</td></tr><br><br>Regards, <br>'+UserInfo.getName()+'<br>Clients Integration Support <br>Hotelbeds<br><br></html>');
Messaging.sendEmail(new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage[] { mail });

 

But I am getting the case description in plain text as follows:

 

"Hello hello hello And two two two Three Three"

 

Thanks a lot!

 

Antonio

 

Best Answer chosen by Admin (Salesforce Developers) 
Anto HotelbedsAnto Hotelbeds

I solved the problem using:

 

HTMLDesc=case2.Description.replaceAll('\n', '<br/>');

 

Thanks a lot for your help!

 

Antonio

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Kamatchi Devi SargunanathanKamatchi Devi Sargunanathan

Hi Antonio,

 

I tried this using trigger with samll changes and its working fine for me.

 

Try the following,

 

trigger SendEmailForCase on Case(after insert, after update) {

  for (Case e : Trigger.new){
        user u = [Select id,Name,profile.id,Email From user Where id=:e.ownerId];    
        Messaging.SingleEmailMessage mail = new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage();

        String emailAddr = u.Email;       
        String HTMLDesc = e.Description;        

        String[] toAddresses = new String[] {emailAddr};
        mail.setToAddresses(toAddresses);
        mail.setSubject('YYYYYou have been involved in the XML Case #'+e.CaseNumber);


//This should be in a single line without linebreaking     

mail.setHtmlBody('<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><table><tr><td>You are receiving this e-mail because you have been added to the referenced XML Support case. If you wish to post a comment to the case, please respond to the unique email address provided for this case without modifying the subject. </td></tr></table><br><table style="width:100%;border-collapse: collapse;"><tr><td style="padding:5px 0;width:140px;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;">Case Description:</td><td style="padding:5px 0;width:560px;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;">'+HTMLDesc+'</td></tr><br><br>Regards, <br>'+UserInfo.getName()+'<br>Clients Integration Support <br>Hotelbeds<br><br></html>');


        Messaging.sendEmail(new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage[] { mail });       
    }
  }

 

Hope this will help you...!

Anto HotelbedsAnto Hotelbeds

I solved the problem using:

 

HTMLDesc=case2.Description.replaceAll('\n', '<br/>');

 

Thanks a lot for your help!

 

Antonio

This was selected as the best answer