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/AWS1/IF_CNT=>ASSOCIATEEMAILADDRESSALIAS()

About AssociateEmailAddressAlias

Associates an email address alias with an existing email address in an Amazon Connect instance. This creates a forwarding relationship where emails sent to the alias email address are automatically forwarded to the primary email address.

Use cases

Following are common uses cases for this API:

  • Unified customer support: Create multiple entry points (for example, support@example.com, help@example.com, customercare@example.com) that all forward to a single agent queue for streamlined management.

  • Department consolidation: Forward emails from legacy department addresses (for example, sales@example.com, info@example.com) to a centralized customer service email during organizational restructuring.

  • Brand management: Enable you to use familiar brand-specific email addresses that forward to the appropriate Amazon Connect instance email address.

Important things to know

  • Each email address can have a maximum of one alias. You cannot create multiple aliases for the same email address.

  • If the alias email address already receives direct emails, it continues to receive direct emails plus forwarded emails.

  • You cannot chain email aliases together (that is, create an alias of an alias).

AssociateEmailAddressAlias does not return the following information:

  • A confirmation of the alias relationship details (you must call DescribeEmailAddress to verify).

  • The timestamp of when the association occurred.

  • The status of the forwarding configuration.

Endpoints: See Amazon Connect endpoints and quotas.

Related operations

Method Signature

METHODS /AWS1/IF_CNT~ASSOCIATEEMAILADDRESSALIAS
  IMPORTING
    !IV_EMAILADDRESSID TYPE /AWS1/CNTEMAILADDRESSID OPTIONAL
    !IV_INSTANCEID TYPE /AWS1/CNTINSTANCEID OPTIONAL
    !IO_ALIASCONFIGURATION TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_CNTALIASCONFIGURATION OPTIONAL
    !IV_CLIENTTOKEN TYPE /AWS1/CNTCLIENTTOKEN OPTIONAL
  RETURNING
    VALUE(OO_OUTPUT) TYPE REF TO /aws1/cl_cntascemailaddressa01
  RAISING
    /AWS1/CX_CNTACCESSDENIEDEX
    /AWS1/CX_CNTIDEMPOTENCYEX
    /AWS1/CX_CNTINTERNALSERVICEEX
    /AWS1/CX_CNTINVALIDPARAMETEREX
    /AWS1/CX_CNTINVALIDREQUESTEX
    /AWS1/CX_CNTRESOURCECONFLICTEX
    /AWS1/CX_CNTRESOURCENOTFOUNDEX
    /AWS1/CX_CNTTHROTTLINGEX
    /AWS1/CX_CNTCLIENTEXC
    /AWS1/CX_CNTSERVEREXC
    /AWS1/CX_RT_TECHNICAL_GENERIC
    /AWS1/CX_RT_SERVICE_GENERIC.

IMPORTING

Required arguments:

iv_emailaddressid TYPE /AWS1/CNTEMAILADDRESSID /AWS1/CNTEMAILADDRESSID

The identifier of the email address.

iv_instanceid TYPE /AWS1/CNTINSTANCEID /AWS1/CNTINSTANCEID

The identifier of the Amazon Connect instance. You can find the instance ID in the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the instance.

io_aliasconfiguration TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_CNTALIASCONFIGURATION /AWS1/CL_CNTALIASCONFIGURATION

Configuration object that specifies which email address will serve as the alias. The specified email address must already exist in the Amazon Connect instance and cannot already be configured as an alias or have an alias of its own.

Optional arguments:

iv_clienttoken TYPE /AWS1/CNTCLIENTTOKEN /AWS1/CNTCLIENTTOKEN

A unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request. If not provided, the Amazon Web Services SDK populates this field. For more information about idempotency, see Making retries safe with idempotent APIs.

RETURNING

oo_output TYPE REF TO /aws1/cl_cntascemailaddressa01 /AWS1/CL_CNTASCEMAILADDRESSA01

Domain /AWS1/RT_ACCOUNT_ID
Primitive Type NUMC

Examples

Syntax Example

This is an example of the syntax for calling the method. It includes every possible argument and initializes every possible value. The data provided is not necessarily semantically accurate (for example the value "string" may be provided for something that is intended to be an instance ID, or in some cases two arguments may be mutually exclusive). The syntax shows the ABAP syntax for creating the various data structures.

DATA(lo_result) = lo_client->associateemailaddressalias(
  io_aliasconfiguration = new /aws1/cl_cntaliasconfiguration( |string| )
  iv_clienttoken = |string|
  iv_emailaddressid = |string|
  iv_instanceid = |string|
).

This is an example of reading all possible response values

lo_result = lo_result.
IF lo_result IS NOT INITIAL.
ENDIF.