You can share a batch of documents with contacts via email. You choose to send either download links to the documents, or you can attach the documents to the email. When you send documents via email, an action is automatically logged in the Mailings tab for each document.
To share a batch of documents by email:
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Navigate to the
Information Zone or the Documents tab on an entity record, such as a project or organization.
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If Smart View is not enabled, click the Smart View
toggle to enable it.
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Search for and select the check box of each document that you want to share.
For information, see Search for Documents.
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Click
Bulk Share.
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On the Rendition Selector step, deselect any documents that you do not want to send, and click
Next.
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On the Send Email To step, do one or more of the following:
- To add a listed contact as a recipient, select the
TO,
CC, or
BCC option for that contact. To filter the list of contacts, choose an option from the
Filter Source list.
- To manually add a contact, enter the contact's name in the
Add Recipient field. When the contact's name appears, click it to add them as a recipient.
- To add contacts from a community list, or users linked to an entity record, such as an organization or project, click
.
When you manually add a contact, they are assigned as a TO recipient. To change a contact to a CC or BCC recipient, select the respective option to the left of the contact's name.
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Click
Next.
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On the Email Composer step, enter or modify the email subject, and enter some body text, if required.
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Click
Next.
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Do the following to specify the publishing details of the email after it is sent to the selected recipients:
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In the left pane, select one or more document pools to publish the email to.
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In the Select Attributes pane, select one or more entity records to link the email to.
For example, if a selected document pool is linked to the project attribute, you can select a project to link the published email to. Any user with access to the project can then access the email from the Documents tab on the project record.
An asterisk (*) on an attribute indicates that you must select an entity record.
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Click
Next.
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On the Email Options step, modify any of the options, as required.
For information, see Email Sharing Options.
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To create an action for the document after it is published, do the following:
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Click
Next.
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On the Confirmation of Email Recipients step, you can review all recipients of the email.
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Click
Next.
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In the Create Actions step, click
.
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Enter the details of the action.
For information, see Action Properties.
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Click
Save.
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Click
Finish.