https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/email-notification-send-to-email-address-pulled-in-from-post-custom-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: Email notification 'Send to Email' address pulled in from post custom field en-US Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:18:59 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/email-notification-send-to-email-address-pulled-in-from-post-custom-field#post-22204 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:52:58 +0000 provdes 22204@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Great idea, worked like a beaut! Thanks so much for your quick support. Such an awesome plugin! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/email-notification-send-to-email-address-pulled-in-from-post-custom-field#post-22162 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:19:54 +0000 Carl Hancock 22162@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@provdes Store the value of the post/page custom field in a hidden form field. Then use that form field variable in the To/From/CC/BCC field. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/email-notification-send-to-email-address-pulled-in-from-post-custom-field#post-22143 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:05:58 +0000 provdes 22143@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Ahh bummer... Yes the short-code does not work in the To/From/CC/BCC fields.</p> <p>I was totally off track for some reason. My idea is flawed.</p> <p>But hey this custom field from current post short-code is very good.</p> <p>But suggestions about how maybe I could get the To/From/CC/BCC email pulled in from the post/page (which the form is on) would be awesome. </p> <p>Thanks </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/email-notification-send-to-email-address-pulled-in-from-post-custom-field#post-22117 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:29:31 +0000 Carl Hancock 22117@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We'll have to look into it. There may be an issue doing so via the function call vs. shortcode because of how WordPress executes. I'll try to replicate it on my end and take a look. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/email-notification-send-to-email-address-pulled-in-from-post-custom-field#post-22116 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:04:21 +0000 chezolio 22116@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Is there anything special I need to add to make that work if I'm embedding the form via php function call? My custom fields aren't populating my form fields </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/email-notification-send-to-email-address-pulled-in-from-post-custom-field#post-22115 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:18:17 +0000 Chris Lema 22115@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I thought the only fields I could use in the To/From/CC/BCC were those of type Email. Has that changed? Wasn't it a drop down that only showed those types of form fields? Am I off here? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/email-notification-send-to-email-address-pulled-in-from-post-custom-field#post-22112 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:44:17 +0000 Carl Hancock 22112@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Shortcodes are only supported in the Notification Message itself, not in the To/From/CC/BCC/Subject fields. What is described above are the form field variables. </p> <p>If you are talking about the form field variable, then yes you could do that. Form field variables can be used in the To/From/CC/BCC/Subject fields to dynamically populate them with form data. </p> <p>However, if it was a textarea that contained the email addresses you can't be sure they are in the correct format if you didn't use the Email field which has validation for email addresses built in. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/email-notification-send-to-email-address-pulled-in-from-post-custom-field#post-22109 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:38:09 +0000 Chris Lema 22109@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>This may be off topic, but does that mean that I could collect a text area in a form that holds a series of emails addresses, and then use it in the notification by placing a short code in there? Is that possible? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/email-notification-send-to-email-address-pulled-in-from-post-custom-field#post-22058 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:43:42 +0000 Carl Hancock 22058@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Yes the Key is the Custom Field Name. The Name is stored as the Key in the database so with post meta/custom fields you may see people refer to it as the Name or Key. Because it's stored as a Key (the name) / Value pair in the database. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/email-notification-send-to-email-address-pulled-in-from-post-custom-field#post-22026 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:38:27 +0000 provdes 22026@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I just had a fresh look at this again this morning. When you said 'key' I thought you meant the individual key for the custom field. I checked the key numbers for my custom fields used in my posts. Even tho the custom field names we're the same, the keys were all different. (of course)</p> <p>So I just tested the short code with Custom Field name (including spaces) in the key section.</p> <p>{custom_field:My Custom Field Name}</p> <p>This is probably what you meant for me to try but I got confused.</p> <p>This WORKED just like I wanted it to! Very very powerful stuff!!!</p> <p>Thanks so much for your help!<br /> Josh </p>