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Trigger specific action

By: Brian Penner | Asked: 01/13/2023
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Brian Penner asked 2 years ago
Hi, Is there a way to trigger a specific action on an entry? I've got a form with a number of email actions with conditional logic to send the email at specific times. I'd like to trigger the email to resend after a while if the user doesn't update the entry. I've looked at FrmFormActionsController::trigger_actions but that seems to trigger all actions. Does anybody know of a way to trigger only a specific email? 
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Rob LeVineRob LeVine answered 2 years ago
@Brian Penner - I've been asking myself this same question for a while and got sick of not having an answer.  So I figured out one way to do it and made a tutorial out of it. https://connect.formidableforms.com/user-tutorials/programmatically-triggering-specific-email/
Brian Penner replied 2 years ago

Thanks Rob. That is exactly what I was looking for. I found some of those functions when I was checking the Formidable Code but didn't get it all pieced together.

Rob LeVineRob LeVine replied 2 years ago

The code is "not widely tested" to say the least 🙂

Brian Penner replied 2 years ago

I trimmed this up a bit.
$entry_id = 21991; // somehow you have to set the entry id of the form entry you're dealing with
$target_action_id = 9897; // id of the action you want to fire off - you can get this from the database WP_POSTS with the post_type = 'frm_form_actions'
// or get it from the FF ui by opening the action and scrolling all the way down to the bottom right where it says "Action ID:

$entry = FrmEntry::getOne($entry_id, true);
$form_id = $entry->form_id;

$actionToDo = FrmFormAction::get_single_action_type($target_action_id, $type);

$form = FrmForm::getOne($form_id);

FrmNotification::trigger_email( $actionToDo, $entry, $form );

Rob LeVineRob LeVine replied 2 years ago

Nice! I'll update the tutorial.

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Victor Font answered 2 years ago

Formidable's Form Action Automation add-on enables you to schedule emails. See this: https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/schedule-autoresponder/. The add-on schedules WordPress cron jobs, so execution depends upon when people visit your site, so the timing of the send is not an exact science, but close enough.

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