Email: Change from comma to semicolon?

Hi Kristjan,

As i seen this parameter(email_address_separator) in config.php.It is set to comma(,)

I think we can override this parameter in config_override.php like below

$sugar_config['email_address_separator']=";";

1st of all there is an option in Outlook which allows comma as address separator, so if you set that option all commas will be replaced by semicolons.

If you really want to change the comma in Sugar to semicolon you must patch a core file which is not upgradesafe.

This file is \include\javascript\sugar7\plugins\EmailClientLaunch.js

I function _formatRecipientsToString you find the definition of the delim_char which is ',' by default.

If you change the defintion to:

   _formatRecipientsToString: function(recipients) {
      var emailDelim = ';',
      emails = [],
      email;

the email addresses will be separated by ";" globally.

1st of all there is an option in Outlook which allows comma as address separator, so if you set that option all commas will be replaced by semicolons.

If you really want to change the comma in Sugar to semicolon you must patch a core file which is not upgradesafe.

This file is \include\javascript\sugar7\plugins\EmailClientLaunch.js

I function _formatRecipientsToString you find the definition of the delim_char which is ',' by default.

If you change the defintion to:

   _formatRecipientsToString: function(recipients) {
      var emailDelim = ';',
      emails = [],
      email;

the email addresses will be separated by ";" globally.

Thanks kuske for this. So it´s not upgradesafe - that´s good to know.

I was aware of the Outlook option but to change each and every Outlook for over 75 users is not as practical as changing a Sugar setting in one place  That was the use case/thought. I´ll have to think some more about this. Too bad this isn´t an option somewhere in Admin (along with default mail client).

Have a great night!

KGM

In Version 10.2 the function looks like this:

            _formatRecipientsToString: function(recipients) {
                var emails = [];

                recipients = recipients || [];

                if (!_.isArray(recipients)) {
                    recipients = [recipients];
                }

                _.each(recipients, function(recipient) {
                    var email = getEmailAddress(recipient);

                    if (email.get('email_address')) {
                        emails.push(email.get('email_address'));
                    }
                }, this);

                return emails.join(',');
            },

The last statement (return) uses the hardcoded comma.