EmailSubmitConnection :How to add custom email to an InfoPath email data connection EmailSubmitConnection

EmailSubmitConnection : Often times I need to add some more information to an email that is sent from InfoPath besides just a view of the form. Sometimes I want to add fields and such to the body of the email but just end up adding the fields to the subject line since there is no way without writing code to include fields in the introduction field of the email. I hope with Office 14 they make this possible without writing code, but for right now let's see how to do it.

First, you need to create a data connection (EmailSubmitConnection) that sends an email to someone within the InfoPath data connections. This data connection needs to be created so we can reference it in our code.

Second get into the code behind of the form, I'm using C# for InfoPath 2007 so those with InfoPath 2003 may have to figure this out for themselves but hopefully this gives them some clues.

Within, probably a button click event, I get a reference to the email data connection. The "email connection" is the name of the data connection I created in the first step.

EmailSubmitConnection emailDataConnection = (EmailSubmitConnection)this.DataConnections["email connection"];

//add your custom message to the introduction, say hello to yourself
XPathNavigator xnDoc = this.MainDataSource.CreateNavigator();
XPathNavigator fullName = xnDoc.SelectSingleNode("my:myFields/my:txtFullName", this.NamespaceManager);
emailDataConnection .Introduction = "My custom introduction with some fields. Hello " + fullName.Value;

//submit the data connection which sends the email
emailDataConnection .Execute();

As you can see, just get a reference to the data connection (EmailSubmitConnection), set the Introduction property and execute. This can also be accomplished for the FileSubmitConnection and WebServiceConnection objects, so you can write code to execute these connections and set some custom properties before making the submit. Hope this helps someone.