Jun 26th, 2011, 3:32 AM
Hi Nigel,
From what you posted before, it really doesn't seem like Form Tools was designed for that at all. The email system is for sending single emails, or multiple emails based on single events: e.g. when a submission is added, when it's edited, when it's deleted. You seem to need ways to email multiple submissions simultaneously. Form Tools doesn't have that functionality.
And no, I don't know of any external email systems that can talk directly to the Form Tools database.
However, Form Tools allows you to easily export the email information using the Export Manager + Views (i.e. create a View for your form only containing the relevant email data: first name, last name & email address, probably). You can export it in XML, CSV - which are standard formats. Any bulk emailer script will allow for importing a list of emails: you'd just need to export it from Form Tools, then import it into the emailer script. I wish I could recommend some, but I'm not immediately familiar with any.
- Ben
From what you posted before, it really doesn't seem like Form Tools was designed for that at all. The email system is for sending single emails, or multiple emails based on single events: e.g. when a submission is added, when it's edited, when it's deleted. You seem to need ways to email multiple submissions simultaneously. Form Tools doesn't have that functionality.
And no, I don't know of any external email systems that can talk directly to the Form Tools database.
However, Form Tools allows you to easily export the email information using the Export Manager + Views (i.e. create a View for your form only containing the relevant email data: first name, last name & email address, probably). You can export it in XML, CSV - which are standard formats. Any bulk emailer script will allow for importing a list of emails: you'd just need to export it from Form Tools, then import it into the emailer script. I wish I could recommend some, but I'm not immediately familiar with any.
- Ben