[SalesForce] How to send email on custom button using Javascript

I have created custom button to send visualforce page url with opportunity id in opportunity detail page. How can i send URl like 'https://c.ap1.visual.force.com/apex/QuoteOrderForm?id=0069000000DOa0Q' with creating controller or page.

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Take a look at the Salesforce AJAX Toolkit documented here. It is a JavaScript wrapper library around the Saleforce Partner API (a SOAP API). Which does provide an operation sendEmail. There is a JavaScript example of using the 'sendEmail' operation via the AJAX Toolkit here.

// single mail request

var singleRequest = new sforce.SingleEmailMessage();
singleRequest.replyTo = "jsmith@acme.com";
singleRequest.subject = "sent through ajax test driver";

singleRequest.plainTextBody = "this test went through ajax";
singleRequest.toAddresses = ["noone@nowhere.com"];

// mass mail request - need to get email template ID

var queryResponse = sforce.connection.query("select id from emailtemplate");
var templatedId = queryResponse.getArray("records")[0].Id;
var massRequest = new sforce.MassEmailMessage();
massRequest.targetObjectIds = [globalContact.id];
massRequest.replyTo = "jsmith@acme.com";
massRequest.subject = "sent through ajax test driver";
massRequest.templateId = templateId;

var sendMailRes = sforce.connection.sendEmail([singleRequest, massRequest]);

EMAIL TEMPLATE NOTE: The Salesforce sample above references an Email Template, you can create these just as you do Visualforce pages. Note that in your case you'll likely want to query for a specific one. Also if you wanted to share your Quote Visualforce page into such a a template, I've used Visualforce Components in the past to share my Visualforce markup between a VF page and a VF Email Template. You can of course just copy and paste into the VF Email Template, depending on how often your page changes this might be easier.

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You can do this a number of ways..

The easiest is to use AMartin's hack here: https://success.salesforce.com/questionDetail?qid=a1X30000000KDqCEAW I use the term hack deliberately, because salesforce may not support this in the future.
Create a visualforce button that updates a field on the record and fires off a workflow email alert. You can choose the email template that email workflow alert fires off of.

[SalesForce] Custom Button to Send an email using email template

I ran this code and result is not quite what you think.

If you alert the whole result object, you get this:

{errors:{message:'Only Users, Contact, Lead or Person objects are allowed for targetObjectId : a0SK000000FtD7J.', statusCode:'INVALID_TYPE_FOR_OPERATION', targetObjectId:null, }, success:'false', }

Your code needs to look like this to actually work:

{!REQUIRESCRIPT("/soap/ajax/30.0/connection.js")}
(function() {
sforce.connection.sessionId = "{!$Api.Session_ID}";
var message = new sforce.SingleEmailMessage();
message.replyTo = "rapsac@gmail.com";
message.targetObjectId = "005K0000002butj";
message.templateId = "00XK0000000QsbW";
message.saveAsActivity = false;
var result = sforce.connection.sendEmail([message]);
  if(result[0].success == 'true') {
     alert("I sent the email as you requested, master.");
  } else {
     alert("I had a booboo.");
  }
alert(result);
}());

There were several other errors too - the key is to output the whole error in an alert so you can debug it.

As you can see, the targetObjectId is the user that the email is going to, not the object that the template refers to.

Also, saveAsActivity needs to be false to send to an internal user.

This is probably going to take quite a bit of work to get going, but hopefully you are now on the right track.

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