[Resolved] Send email notification to parent's author

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[Valeriia]

Hello,

I found this thread - https://toolset.com/forums/topic/cred-notification-2/, but it's not working for me.

I added the parent author's email as a generic field, but it's still not visible in the settings (Where to send this notification / Send notification to an email specified in a form field).

Please advise.

[cred_generic_field field='_parent_email' type='hidden' class='' urlparam='']
{
"required":0,
"validate_format":0,
"default":"[wpv-user field='user_email']"
}
[/cred_generic_field]

By the way, I wanted to attach a screenshot, but the Upload Image link didn't work.

Thanks.

[Minesh Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Kolkata (GMT+05:30)]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

Well - you used the `hidden field that's the reason you are not able to see the field in the settings. You need to go with one of the solution as given under:

Solution 1:
-- Setup your field as 'email' and chceck if its available in settings and this works but the field will be dispalyed with your form.

[cred_generic_field field='_parent_email' type='email' class='' urlparam='']
{
"required":0,
"validate_format":0,
"persist":1,
"default":"[wpv-user field='user_email']"
}
[/cred_generic_field]

Solution 2:
-- If you do not want to display the parent email field with your form and you want to go with the hidden field then you need to use hook: cred_notification_recipients

add_filter('cred_notification_recipients', 'my_cred_notification_recipients_func', 10, 4);
function my_cred_notification_recipients_func($recipients){
    if (!is_array($recipients)) {
        $recipients=array();
    }
    if (isset($_POST['_cred_cred_prefix_form_id']) && 9999 == $_POST['_cred_cred_prefix_form_id']){
         
        if(isset($_POST['_parent_email']) and $_POST['_parent_email']!=""){
            $recipients[] = array('to'=>'to', 'name'=>'', 'lastname'=>'', 'address'=>$_POST['_parent_email'] );
             
        }
    }
    return $recipients;
}

Where:
-- Replace '9999 ' with your CRED form ID.

I hope above solution will allow you to resolve your issue.

[Valeriia]

Hello Minesh,

Thanks a lot for the snippet. The second one didn't work though (the form id is set correct), so I had to hide the fields with css. That will do.

Happy upcoming New Year and thanks for all the help 🙂

[Valeriia]

Sorry, have to re-open.

I set everything and the generic fields display correct information in front-end (parent author email, name and last name).

[cred_generic_field field='_parent_email' type='email' class='' urlparam='']
{
"required":0,
"validate_format":0,
"persist":1,
"default":"[wpv-user field='user_email' id="[wpv-post-author format='meta' meta='ID']"]"
}
[/cred_generic_field]

[cred_generic_field field='_parent_name' type='textfield' class='' urlparam='']
{
"required":0,
"validate_format":0,
"persist":1,
"default":"[wpv-user field='user_firstname' id="[wpv-post-author format='meta' meta='ID']"]"
}
[/cred_generic_field]

[cred_generic_field field='_parent_lastname' type='textfield' class='' urlparam='']
{
"required":0,
"validate_format":0,
"persist":1,
"default":"[wpv-user field='user_lastname' id="[wpv-post-author format='meta' meta='ID']"]"
}
[/cred_generic_field]

The notification is set to go to that email (see screenshot).

But in reality it does the opposite - the email goes to the sender himself.
I.e. if I'm logged-in and submit this form, I receive the notification myself, not the email specified in the _parent_name.

Am I doing anything wrong?

Thanks.

[Valeriia]

My bad, sorted out. Thanks.

[Valeriia]

Hi Minesh,

I'm sorry for not replying, I'm giving all my time to another project at the moment. If you still need me to give you the access, I can do it over the weekend (please enable private response in that case). Otherwise it's solved for me at the moment.

Thanks.