[Resolved] Dynamically populating the from field of a mail notification with a customfield

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[casparK]

I have a post called 'Venues'
Venues has a custom field called contact-email - this is separate field from the authors user_email

I want to create a form on this page which is visible only to logged in users which has a text box for a message that will be sent to contact-email.

I assume I would create custom post type called 'messages' or something to the form actually creates this and then sends the notification on.

contact-email is dynamic as every venue could have a different one - I seem to be able to send the notifcation to a designated email address, the logged in user or a designated user but not to a value of a custom field.

Any thought on how to do this - I have some some success with Contact form 7 and the dynamic text extension but prefer for this to be all in Toolset

Any ideas?

[Luo Yang]

Hello,

I think it is possible with Toolset Forms plugin.

For example, you can try these:
1) Create a post type "message",
2) setup one-to-many relationship between post types "Venues" and "message"
3) create a custom email field "send-to" in post type "message"
4) create a post form for creating "message" post, put the custom email field "send-to" into the form content, and populate the default value with "contact-email" field value:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/cred-shortcodes/#cred_field
value. Optional. Preset value

For example:

[cred_field field='send-to' force_type='field' class='form-control' output='bootstrap' value='[types field='contact-email' output='raw' id='$current_page'][/types]']

5) Then you will be able to send to the email address value of field "send-to", see our document:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/automated-email-notifications-with-cred/#send-different-notifications-to-the-site-admin-and-visitor
section "Send different notifications to the site admin and visitor"
screenshot:
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6) The put above post form into single "Venues" post content, and test again.

[casparK]

Hi Luo

Thats really clever thanks- I think it is going to work!

[Luo Yang]

You are welcome

[casparK]