Hi- Does anyone know if its possible to use FreeForm to get the notification email sent to a particular person based on what the user selected in the form?

Here’s my quandary: There are five different locations that they can select from and the form needs to be sent to that particular location…

Thanks!

Thanks for posting.

In previus versions of Freeform we made it possible to dynamically control to whom emai was sent . We disabled this to prevent Freeform from being used as a spam tool by hackers. In the future we may be able to add the functionality back in using a more secure method.

mk

HKMUSIL, depending on your server setup and skills, I’d like to share a method that just might work for you: you send that email to a special account, parse it automatically (using procmail, eg) and act upon that, forward it to another account. A simple variant would be to use a Gmail account, and setup a filter “Has the words”. I have done it before, but it requires a certain familiarity with your server and email configuration.

I’ve an upcoming ExpressionEngine project where this would be needed. I haven’t started on it yet, but have been thinking about its implementation.

It’ll be a simple event registration form, basically a “Yes, I’ll attend” form, no online payments, etc.

I envisioned a standard form with a drop-down menu listing the events. What’s required is that the resulting email be sent to different people based on the event selected in the drop-down menu.

(I haven’t gotten that far into the thought process yet, but I suppose I could set up a weblog, with simple entries for each event, including event name and the contact email address, then pull that info into form.)

I see from an earlier post that this functionality was removed last year, but might be added again. Or is there a different way of doing this?

There is still currently no way to do this, though it is planned for a future release

In the meantime, all I can do is refer you to this possible workaround:
http://www.solspace.com/forums/viewthread/379/#2985

Off the top of my head, the only other workaround I can think of is using a Javascript Collapse/Hide & Expand and have a different form for each “department”
But you’d sort of have to do it as a two-part thing… have them click where they want to send it to first, then have them fill out the details in the form loaded.

Thanks

Thanks, Pie Man.

The second option will probably work better for me. We’re unlikely to have more than 3-5 such events ongoing at once, and the form itself will be relatively short, not much more than an RSVP. So it shouldn’t take up much space/download time if I have a handful of hide/show areas on the page.

When that’s added to a new version, of course, it’ll open up many opportunities. Looking forward to it!

Thanks, again!

Ugh, man, this is bad news . I have a form all ready to go, but ideally the user selects from a dropdown with 5 different contact so it gets sent to that particular person. Will probably try the javascript page-refresh thing that drops an email address into a URL segment that someone else posted here. Bleargh.