Generate Email Address

Version: 1.4

Category: Process

Extended Category: LDAP, Mail

Action Package: Standard Actions

Description

This Action generates email addresses. In most cases email addresses are generated by an email system but in some cases they have to be generated outside the email system.

Email addresses are built from session object input. This input could be given name, last name and a string containing characters. The email address is put together of a First Part, and a Second Part and eventually a third part (incremental character). The parameter ‘Email Domain’ supports SESSION() and is added to the end of the address

In some cases a given prefix/suffix or a digit etc may be added.

Character Replacement

Before any session attributes used in this Action are passed into the session, illegal characters should be replaced. This is done with the Action String Replacer

Below an example string that can be used in the String Replacer’s Character Mapping parameter:

å|a,ä|a,ą|a,â|a,á|a,à|a,ã|a,è|e,é|e,ê|e,ë|e,ę|e,ç|c,ć|c,ł|l,ü|u,ñ|n,û|u,ú|u,ù|u,í|i,ì|i,î|i,õ|o,ò|o,ö|o,ø|o,ó|o,ô|O,æ|ae,ś|s,ß|ss,ź|z,ż|z,Å|A,Ä|A,Â|A,Á|A,À|A,Ã|A,È|E,É|E,Ê|E,Ë|E,Ç|C,ł|l,Ü|U,Ñ|N,Û|U,Ú|U,Ù|U,Í|I,Ì|I,Í|I,Õ|O,Ò|O,Ö|O,Ø|O,Ó|O,Ô|O,Æ|AE

Use Cases

Example 1: john.doe@domain.local, john.a.doe@domain.local

Desired result:

john.doe@domain.local

Desired result if address is in use:

john.a.doe@domain.local
john.x.doe@domain.local
john.z.doe@domain.local
john.1.doe@domain.local

and so on…

NOTE!
If Incremental Character String is empty and Add Incremental Character (digit/alpha) is set to alpha the result will be john.1.doe@domain.local because there is no alpha characters to use. The fail over mechanism is digit characters starting with 1 (one).

Tip! To avoid the digit character fail over, create an Add Static Attribute action and add a long string (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz) to the value that is used in Incremental Character String. Let’s say this value is taken from a middle name (Dave), the string may look like this: daveabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. Run the Add Static Attribute action before this action.

Example 2: doe.john@domain.local, doe.john_1@domain.local

Desired result:

doe.john@domain.local

Desired result if address is in use:

doe.john_1@domain.local
doe.john_2@domain.local

and so on…