Email

[walkingby]

I have a form on a website which has a list menu "department" the user will select which pertains to the department they'd wish to get in touch with. Is there a way to customize Form Tool...so depending on what is selected here, determines which user receives the submission email?

Thanks!

[Ben]

Hey Brian,

Sure, but it's not exactly the most elegant solution... and depending on the number of options in the department dropdown, it may prove unfeasible.

Basically you can just create a new View for each option in the dropdown. They'd be identical except for the View filters - each would specify a different filter, like:

Department = Humanities
Department = Arts
Department = Science

(or whatever).

Then you could create an email template for each option. For the email template, just assign it to the appropriate View by assigning it to the View in the "When Sent" option, found in the Advanced Settings on the first Edit Email Template tab.

So yeah, NOT pretty...

Later this month I'll be working on a new feature for the Views that will allow for a much simpler solution, see this thread:
http://forums.formtools.org/showthread.php?tid=72

But I haven't had time to really sit down and examine the code, so I won't posit a completion date.

Anyway, hope all is well -

Ben

[walkingby]

Wonderful! Thanks so much for the response! Sometimes I spend so much time "outside" of the box...just to find out the solution was somewhat "inside!"