Support Multiple Emails

Hi,
As requested in your reply to my pre-sales inquiry, please would you add the new feature to have the Users enquiry to send to multiple email addresses.

Many thanks
John

Dear John,

I've added this feature. All you have to do is type the emails separated by coma in the Contact email field and do NOT link to a user.

Regards,

Hello Douglas,
So quick... Even before I had the chance to reply to your kind offer of a custom version.
Thanks so much.
I've made a purchase (honestly, before I knew you'd done it !!)
and you can see my attempt at configuring up at www dot hogarth-singers dot org
using option Contact Us 3. By the way I'm using in conjunction with Community ACL.

Nice product. Your pre-sales documentation doesn't do your hard work justice. It's a big enhancement .

Let me know when you issue the updated version, so can download it.

I may be asking a bit too much here, but here goes:
(1) When the User is logged in, it would be nice if the Name and Email fields were readonly. But of course ReadWrite when it is a public user.
(2) If you look at my site, (Contact Us 3) I was thinking of different emails for each of the Items in the SelectList - I realise I can do that another way now I've seen the product.

Thank you very much.
I'll send you a free ticket for our next concert.
Joinville looks a nice city, but it's a bit far away.

Cheers
John

Dear John,

You're welcome! I do my best to provide the support possible.

1- I've already sent you the files to accomplish the readonly feature. I will add that as an option for the next version.
2- I didn't understand what is exactly that need. If you want to setup different destinations for the contact form you will have to create different Contacts. I'm improving my extensions on a daily basis and I'll study a way to add this feature in future releases.

Joinville is a bit far from London, but my sister and I are planning to go to Europe next summer and she loves music. She sings in our church every other Saturday.

Regards,

I'd also like something similar, but ideally linked to Categories, so all members of a category get emailed, as opposed to having to set up a single contact with multiple emails.

The current method does seem to work, but I think it would be neater if contacts were single individuals, and categories were collections of related inidviduals who could be contacted as a group.

Of course, contacts should also be able to belong to multiple categories, but this seems to be possible at present anyway.

Hope this makes sense.

Stef

Stef has an interesting point.

But maybe another way of implementing the mutliple emails, is to allow a Contact to be attached to one or more Joomla Users using a selection list. This would ensure the system administrators only had one place to maintain email addresses in the back end. And if the User (to which the Contact Form email is sent) does update their email address a manual update of the email within the Contact will not be required.

Still very pleased with Douglas's component, and his excellent support.

Regards
John

I thought I'd just try an explain my point 2 from an eariler post.

When I was first looking for a Contact Form, I just assumed the User would select a Menu Item and get directed immediately to the Form itself.

Since I want the User to send contacts to different departments, such as Sales, Support, Accounts, I expected to need a Selection List. The User would write their text, select the destination and send the contact. That means the email addresses need to be attached to the entries in the Selection list.
It's a simple approach that I have had to use myself on websites where I have made purchases.

The Joomla Contact component and Douglas's offer a feature the other way round. Links are provided for the who you want to contact first, then the Form opens. This way round is done so that more contact info, such as phone, address etc, can be shown to user.

So, I'm happy to change my mind and use this second approach. Perhaps it's a little clearer for the Users too.

Thanks all,