SharePoint Sending an e-mail with an attachment to a member of an Active Directory

I had the problem that when for instance a bill was created, I want to have it sended to the e-mail of the salesman and to the e-mail from the customer.

The problem I faced was that I’ve had selected the customer from a combobox who’s filled not with users / groups but with a simple string.  And also that i wanted to add the created file in the attachment of the e-mail.

The solution:

I’ve used Send E-mail with HTTP file attachement from the actionslist from a WorkFlow that is connected to a Directory

• Destination:
  • I had to select the column where my customer is placed
• Sender:
  • just put an e-mail adres, doesn’t have to exist
• Name of the attached file:
  • Give it a general name
  • add to the end of the name a . and a Lookup of the FileType / Bestandstype
• HTTP-URL of the file:
  • Just use the Encoded Absolute URL / Gecodeerde absolute URL and the file will automatically be selected

The action isn’t a standard from SharePoint, it’s a custom action from SPDActivities