Chris Titus asked 9 hours ago
Is it possible to trigger an email after updating a form using inline front-end editing to update a field?
Here's the shortcode I'm using
[frm-entry-update-field id=[id] field_id=91 label="send email" value="email"]
When field 91 is updated to 'email', I want an email to be generated.
Rob LeVine answered 8 hours ago
Chris Titus
replied 8 hours ago My hero! Thank you Rob! I was on that page and clearly missed it. You saved me big time! Thanks
Chris Titus
replied 6 hours ago Okay, I figured out why. I'm using Genesis Extender for modifying functions.php. There's an option to apply changes in this file to the Admin section. This was unchecked. Once I checked it, the script worked fine. Thanks again!
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<p>You can place a conditional on the Email Action in the settings area based on the update. (The same way you add conditionals to form fields) Trigger action = Form Updated Add Conditional Logic (At the bottom of the email send section) based on your criteria.</p><p>ETA: I didn't read closely enough to see you are using a shortcode - I'm not 100% sure this would work that way.</p>
Thanks for your response Mark. It works if using front-end editing code that loads the form and requires clicking the 'update' button, but it isn't triggering when it's an inline link that updates a single field w/o any update click.
I figured that as soon as I saw it after reading a second time. I just browsed the FMPro docs and they have a way to trigger a confirmation when this occurs using an inline form. https://formidableforms.com/knowledgebase/set-up-front-end-editing/#kb-trigger-action-after-editing
While not as convenient, you could leave the checkbox out of play for this, and simply show the user a Confirmation Message or redirect Thank you page, where you can embed a second form and pull their email address and whatever other information you need into the fields, with a message saying "Send me a copy of this update", or something like that.