send email to user in a reference field from a Catalog Item

[Peter Williams]

Good Day everyone.

I am trying to figure out how to email a user that is filled into a reference field on a catalog item form.

Basically, i have an expense form and on the form i have a reference field called Approver.

The request once submitted should email the Approver to approve the expense request.

I am not able to figure out how to do this in the Notification or email script.

or how do you program event parm 1 to pass the information into it

any help is appricated 

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Peter Williams 

you can use eventQueue based approach via business rule

So once REQ is created are you creating an expense record? you can use workflow run script and pass that field value in event parm1

Can you share some details around the form, screenshots etc

[Peter Williams]

sure here is what the expense form looks like:

the Reference field Approver

is what i need to send the email to once the item is submitted.

i need to pass that approver email to the notification

but i am not sure on how to do it for the catalog item REQ

[Manmohan K]

Hi @Peter Williams 

Please refer below video for steps to create a notification in workflow

Sending email Notification In a workflow 

[Peter Williams · Accepted solution]

i was able to figure it out 

(function() {
// return the value to use for Parameter 1
return current.variables.approbateur_approver;
}());

thank you all for the input