Using Universal Email

This chapter provides a series of brief lessons that guide you through the process of creating custom email applications using the visual authoring tools for Universal Email. For information on each email object in Universal Email, see Email Object Configuration.

To insert the Universal Email server behavior:

  1. Select the page that is going to be used to send the email.
  2. Choose Insert > WebAssist > Universal Email.

    The Universal Email dialog box appears.
  3. Use the tab interface for the server behavior to define all the properties for the email object. The server behavior requires the Email Object, To, and From tabs be defined before the server behavior can be applied to the page. The following lessons cover how to define each tab:
  4. Select OK to apply the server behavior and it will generate the code necessary for the email functionality to twork on the page. The ASP version of the server behavior also creates an include folder in the root of your site called WA_Universal_Email that contains the supporting files.