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Hesam
Hesam

Reputation: 39

Gmail addon - compose trigger select action without Card / UI

Following this tutorial, I could create a new icon in Gmail compose UI which opens a Card, let's the user choose a photo, and inserts it into the email. How can I directly insert the image once the icon is clicked on? This is going to be a frequent action and I don't want to require my user to deal with the UI every time. Is there any way to directly set a function returning newUpdateDraftBodyAction in my composeTrigger.selectActions list?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 496

Answers (1)

ZektorH
ZektorH

Reputation: 2760

To do this you have to understand how the click trigger the insertion of an image.

if you look at the tutorial you provided, there is a line responsible for the click action:

(...)            CardService.newImage()
                .setImageUrl(imageUrl)
                .setOnClickAction(CardService.newAction()
                      .setFunctionName('applyInsertImageAction')
                                  .setParameters({'url' : imageUrl})));
(...)

If we look into it a little closer we can see that we are telling our Images to have a OnClickAction that calls a new action with the function name of 'applyInsertImageAction' and the parameters {"url":<imageUrl>}.

So, in short, you have to call the applyInsertImageAction function with the correct parameters to execute this action without the need for the extra clicks on the images.

Hope this helps!

Upvotes: 1

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