Send new form submissions to a group of contacts

Hi Douglas
I desperately need a solution.
I need to send all new form submissions to groups of contacts based on different selections.

e.g if a form is submitted by someone who lives in 'Rosebank' (an area in a town selected from a selectlist -custom field)

then the details of that client will go to a GROUP (call it 'Rosebank Contacts Group') of contacts that can assist that client with what he/she needs.

same goes if someone lives in 'Fourways' - send details to 'Fourways Contact Group'

each group will be different and could have many suppliers etc..

I hope this makes sense?
I have spent hours trying to work it out or see if there is anything like this in the forum with no luck - I hope you can help?

Thanks Derek

Dear Derek,

It is not hard to do at all.

Did you see the Select Recipient Custom Field?

Please watch this screencast:
ideal.fok.com.br/joomla-extens...ields/61-select-recipient.html

In the email part of the value you can enter multiple emails separated by commas, it should look something like this:
someone@company1.com,someoneelse@company1.com::Rosebank |someone@company2.com,someoneelse@company2.com::Fourways

I hope it makes sense!

All the best,

Hi
i tried that -i used a semicolon; instead of a colon and of course it didn't work

its always the simple things that get me..

Thank you - i will try it now
Cheers

By the way - i'm not sure how many responses you make a day - but you are extremely quick to respond - it is so appreciated.

Hi
it worked.YIPEEEEE

i did notice that all the email addresses show in the mails

e.g someone@company1.com,someoneelse@company1.com

I would like this not to be the case and will look for a solution - more investigation...

Cheers
Derek

Dear Derek,

That's the way it is meant to be, because originally it is meant to send that one email to all recipients, but I came up with a solution for you.

Please open [Path to Joomla]/components/com_contact_enhanced/controller.php

In the submit function (method actually) find this line:And change for these ones:
Now it is going to send one individual email to each address.
This will be added to the next version as well.

All the best,

Hi
Thanks..

I will give it a go. and get back to you.

Cheers

i have found the

$sent = $mail->Send();
- there are 2 lines that the above appears on. I have tried changing the first. then the 2nd. then both with the new code.

Maybe its because i am copying the file from fiezila across to my p.c and some code is being changed, but when i copy it back to the test site i get the following:

'There are some invalid fields, please check fields in red' - which is the recipient field

Obviously i am not a trained I.T or dreamweaver user - what am i doing wrong?

Thank you

it seems there are more than 2 lines that have the code: $sent = $mail->Send();

I am trying to change all of them now.

Dear Derek,

I'll send you a new file in a few minutes by email.

Regards,

That would be Magic..thanks

Dear Derek,

I have already sent the file to your email.
Please let me know if it is working as expected.

All the best,

Hi Douglas

its been some time since i submitted any queries. I have 2 quetsions....one of which relates to this thread.

Have you managed to get the latest version to enable that each form submission that is made to a number of email addresses is sent out to 1 email address at a time?

i.e. bob@xyz.co.za, joe@abc.co.za| Area1

so when bob get an email he can't see that joe also received an email and visa versa.


I see that you have made it that the select recipient field can now be a checkbox field....which is fantastic.

I am testing this on another site, and notice that there is always a blank checkbox with each field? see img



Thanks

Derek