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Variables for emails not working
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Brendan

11:36 pm June 18, 2009
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I'm having a problem with emails sent from cformsII.

I am trying both email to admin and email to person who submitted and neither is taking variables.

I have fields labeled Your Name and one labeled Email and when I use {Your Name} or {Email} in the email subjects it does not work properly, and only comes through as that text.

I have also tried using {_field02} with no effect.

Any way I can figure out what is going wrong?  Do variables with field names include the full text of the field name box, or just the actual field name identifier? eg (Your Name|Your Name).  Is that {Your Name} or {Your Name|Your Name}?

Thanks!  Awesome plugin!
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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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7:25 am June 19, 2009
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might want to start with sharing some basic info per the template that you deleted before entering your description.

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cbrooks120

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10:58 pm June 28, 2009
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I am having a similar problem. Emails will use the predefined variables (Date, Time) but none of the form field variables. I have tried both {Field Name} and {_fieldnn} formats. Any suggestions?
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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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7:26 am June 29, 2009
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yes, you could share more info…

  1. your template
  2. your form/URL
  3. form field config strings (at least one example that doesn't work)

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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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7:38 am June 29, 2009
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Based on your feedback (via email), it looks like the field you're trying to reference doesn't exist anymore.

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cbrooks120

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3:17 am June 30, 2009
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Field {Your Name} is still on the form. Can you give example of a field that you think does exist?
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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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7:11 am June 30, 2009
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Your're right, I missed the{Your Name} field under Other…

Odd, it should work this way, can you send a screenshot of the form configuration (fields) and the admin message template?

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cbrooks120

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2:48 pm July 1, 2009
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Oliver

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9:28 pm July 1, 2009
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it looks good. can you make a form backup and send it to my email (see cforms.php)?

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EivindFS

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5:17 pm August 24, 2009
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I'm having the same problem.

Would appreciate if any solution is found that it be posted here.

Thanks,

Eivind,
Sigarett Design
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EivindFS

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5:56 pm August 24, 2009
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A quick note to point out that the syntax given in the help section for enabling IDs for the field names fails on my installation.

Field name[id:field id] simply adds the brackets and the code inside the field label, without enabling the ID for the field.

Looking forward to discovering a solution for this variable problem.

Best regards,

Eivind,
Sigarett Design
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Oliver

Munich, Germany

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6:28 pm August 24, 2009
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I'm having the same problem.

Would appreciate if any solution is found that it be posted here.

Thanks,

that's zero info to work with, hence I can't help you

Field name[id:field id] simply adds the brackets and the code inside the field label, without enabling the ID for the field.

that only happens when you forgot to enable the form to accept/parse [ID's]

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EivindFS

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10:29 am August 25, 2009
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Yeah, I saw you didn't like "same problem"-posts in the FAQ. Yet, I'm having exactly the same problem as was outlined above. But if it is any help, I can repeat it in my own writing:

When Cforms sends out e-mails, the variables do not work. I've tried the different forms of syntax, but all I get in the email is curly brackets with the field name/id/field number inside.

Here's a snippet of the e-mail that's sent out. The names in curly brackets reference the names

Firmanavn: {Firmanavn}
Org.nr.: {Org nr}
Adresse: {Gateadresse}
Postnr: {Postnummer}
Poststed: {Poststed}
Telefon: {Telefon}
Faks: {Telefaks}

Your plugin is amazing by the way, a real boon. Probably one of the very best plugins for Wordpress right now.

Best regards,

Eivind,
Sigarett Design
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EivindFS

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10:44 am August 25, 2009
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Aaha! Turns out that there's a little magic switch that you pointed to in the reply above, Oliver.

Enabling "" under core admin fixed my problem entirely. I couldn't see any reference to this being necessary anywhere, which may be useful for others.

But now I'm having another problem. The form doesn't validate and throws an "all required fields must be filled in"-error even when the checkbox is checked.

I'm gonna look more into this, and will probably rather start a new thread about this if I don't figure it out.

Thanks,
Eivind
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EivindFS

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11:20 am August 25, 2009
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Okay, I discovered the answer to the above. Seems that validating checkboxes only works with Ajax enabled on my installation, and for some reason I couldn't enable Ajax for just that form before I recreated it. It works now. Hooray!

Eivind
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