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Not receiving notifications in some cases

2008-10-06T10:47:14-08:00

I have a notification form that will deliver notifications to one address but not another.

We know the notification works if emails are sent directly to an addres (e.g. me@work.com).

However, we have an address set up (volunteers@client.com) as a distribution list in Gmail. If I send an email from my work address to the volunteers@client.com address, the distribution system works properly—so we know that’s also ok.

But if we add volunteers@client.com to Freeform’s notification list, the notification never gets sent out via the gmail distribution list.

So I assume (maybe wrongly) that something about the Freeform-created email is causing Gmail to treat the email like spam/block it/etc. Are there any settings in Freeform that we can work with try and fix this? I’ve tried adding and removing the “From” email in the notification template, but that didn’t help.

Thanks.

Freeform insert_end hook Bug

2007-12-19T10:26:30-08:00

I’ve been battling against this issue for the last few hours and I’ve reached the end of my ideas, so I thought I’d post and see what comes of it.

I’ve written an extension which uses the freeform_module_insert_end hook to perform some extra actions after adding to the database. Sadly I’m receiving the following error messages when it’s in place.

Notice: Undefined variable: msg in /web/www.idworks.ie/current/public/core/modules/freeform/mod.freeform.php on line 1354

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /web/www.idworks.ie/current/public/core/modules/freeform/mod.freeform.php:1354) in /web/www.idworks.ie/current/public/core/core/core.functions.php on line 296

From the look of things $msg seems to be undefined. It gets set in the code which checks whether to send notifications, and the code which sends a response to the user, but after each it is unset.

Originally I was using version 2.5.2 but the problem has persisted since I updated to 2.6.0. Expression Engine is at version 1.6.1 (build 20071204).

Steve
Any ideas?

free form error messages

2008-10-03T13:57:06-08:00

hi all

a couple questions on the error page for required fields:

1) instead of submitting and going to another page is it possible to integrate some javascript to do the required field check so i get a nice pop dialogue box instead of another web page?

2) if i was to stay with error web page, where do i edit those? i went into admin -> specialty templates, but they don’t seem to effect the error pages for freeform.

thanks in advance!

Combining two form fields

2008-10-03T12:47:38-08:00

Hi,

I have created a form and it all works great, except for one area. I have a list of items, created with a weblog:entries embed. These items each have a checkbox and an textbox to enter some info. Because there are multiple items, the checkbox and textbox are both separate arrays. What I need to do is combine the value of the Checkbox and the value of the textbox.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Hard to read entries and deleting

2008-10-02T06:22:24-08:00

I have a client for which we used Freeform - It has been awesome - Thanks.

They have a lot of fields (80 some) and sometimes the people who post in to the form enter what amounts to a book - lots of words. The result is a very, very hard to read and ugly summary entry because the field that has a ton of text gets about 50 characters wide column and the text ends up being displayed in a column that is about three screens tall.

Two ideas to handle this…

1) Limit the verbiage that is displayed in the Entries area to 20 or 30 words. You could read the whole detail by clicking “edit”
2) I have put together a web page that uses the entries tag to display a compact table of Freeform entries that can be reviewed and managed. The trick with this one is that to delete the entries you still need to go back to Freeform in the Modules section and track down entry and delete it from there.

The real question...How could a link be created that would allow my user to delete the entry from my summary page rather than using the freeform backend?

Multiple email newsletter signups w/ EE through Freeform

2007-07-31T15:43:59-08:00

I’ve heard people mention that freeform might be possible but has anyone successfully done this?

Was hoping of using checkboxes and if checked it would sign up the user to the mailing list.

Questionnaire

2008-09-24T18:48:42-08:00

Hi all,

I need to create a questionnaire (single page) and there are a group of radio buttons that determine the outcome.

Basically if someone clicked on radio 1 then on Submit I want to take them to xyz.com/solution/radio1 and if they click on radio 2 then on Submit they get taken to xyz.com/solution/radio2

Is there a way to check which button is checked then pass this to the URL?

PS. I am using jQuery for all external Javascript stuff in case that’s important!

Freeform Email Global Variable for Notify

2008-09-30T21:53:03-08:00

Hi, I’m using freeform with EE. I’m using Freeform on a number of templates for different forms however the notify email is the same for all forms in all templates.

I’ve set a global variable in the Templates > Global Variables so I can just use {email_contact} in templates however this doesn’t work in FreeForm.

Is there anyway to do the same thing in Freeform so I can just have one place to edit email contact information instead of editing templates?

Thanks

Field content not passing to template

2008-09-27T22:53:52-08:00

Hi all,

I have a frustrating problem where one of my forms isn’t passing any of it’s custom field contents to the email template.

I have 5 forms and 4 of them work great but the 5th only passes the name, email and phone fields.

I have checked the template names and form names and all seems well.

Any ideas why this could be happening?

Using FreeForm Fields In Mailing List Manager in EE

2008-09-28T21:21:20-08:00

Is it possible to use the custom field variables when sending out mass-mails via the Mailing List Manager in EE?

Say for instance if I had a mailing list form where I collected the user’s name via one of the FreeForm fields, could I use it in my mass mailing to dynamically put their name in the email?