https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-that-can-populate-a-post-custom-database-fields-and-sends-emails Gravity Support Forums Topic: Form that can populate a post, custom database fields, and sends Emails? en-US Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:04:45 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-that-can-populate-a-post-custom-database-fields-and-sends-emails#post-26852 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:47:54 +0000 btickler 26852@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks :). I can't see the last link you added since I haven't bought Gravity Forms yet, but just the title gives me hope ;)... </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-that-can-populate-a-post-custom-database-fields-and-sends-emails#post-26847 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:15:32 +0000 David Smith 26847@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>That is one notification template and one autoresponder template per form. I'd break it down like so:</p> <blockquote><p>- Inform me about the post</p></blockquote> <p>Notification template on the form</p> <blockquote><p>Send an Email to the nomination submitter...</p></blockquote> <p>Autoresponder template on the same form</p> <blockquote><p>Send an Email to the nominee once the post has been approved</p></blockquote> <p>Use something like <a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/solution-automatic-email-once-post-has-been-approved" rel="nofollow">this</a> to email nominee when the post is published. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-that-can-populate-a-post-custom-database-fields-and-sends-emails#post-26824 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:25:36 +0000 btickler 26824@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Ok, thanks...is that one notification template per form, or overall?</p> <p>Assuming it's per form, maybe I could just break the process into stages and have a form specifically for the extra notification I need. </p> <p>What I am trying to do is create a "submit a nomination" process that will:</p> <p>- Inform me about the post (I am using Subscribe2 so this is already theoretically covered)<br /> - Send an Email to the nomination submitter asking them to Email the nominee and let them know a nomination is on the way from my website so they don't throw it away as spam (this I could do with Gravity Forms in I have the baility to create a template for this form in particular)<br /> - Send an Email to the nominee once the post has been approved and posted (not sure how to do this later if I break it up this way).</p> <p>That seems to get me pretty close to what I need, does that sound workable with Gravity Forms? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-that-can-populate-a-post-custom-database-fields-and-sends-emails#post-26816 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:05:54 +0000 David Smith 26816@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <blockquote><p>- Someone enters a bio/profile<br /> - Some of the fields populate a post (including tags on the post) </p></blockquote> <p>These features are supported by default.</p> <blockquote><p>- Some of the fields are also used to populate custom fields in the database</p></blockquote> <p>This is possible using Gravity Forms hooks and a little custom code.</p> <blockquote><p>- Along with the form submission, Email notifications to 2-3 addresses are sent out, each one with a different template (the addresses are a mix of static and dynamic/form field given addresses)</p></blockquote> <p>Gravity Forms allows you to send multiple email notifications; however multiple templates are not supported. You are currently limited to a "notification" template and a "auto responder" template. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-that-can-populate-a-post-custom-database-fields-and-sends-emails#post-26780 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:07:32 +0000 btickler 26780@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Oops, adding this reply so I can subscribe via Email to any replies. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/form-that-can-populate-a-post-custom-database-fields-and-sends-emails#post-26779 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 04:05:51 +0000 btickler 26779@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Can Gravity Forms do the following?:</p> <p>- Someone enters a bio/profile<br /> - Some of the fields populate a post (including tags on the post)<br /> - Some of the fields are also used to populate custom fields in the database<br /> - Along with the form submission, Email notifications to 2-3 addresses are sent out, each one with a different template (the addresses are a mix of static and dynamic/form field given addresses) </p>