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Complete form, email PDF

  1. Hi,

    I can't find this but might be looking in the wrong place ...

    I need, using GF of course ...
    User submits a form
    User receives a response with a file (PDF) attached.

    The file would be set via the admin.

    Is this possible?

    Posted 13 years ago on Sunday July 25, 2010 | Permalink
  2. You can't currently attach a file to the customer notification email. You could simply include the link to the file in the message.

    Posted 13 years ago on Sunday July 25, 2010 | Permalink
  3. Oh! I could do this with CForms fine.
    I was hoping it would be the same feature in GF as well as CF is a superior plugin.

    Posted 13 years ago on Sunday July 25, 2010 | Permalink
  4. We have plans for a more advanced Notification add-on and we are looking at including file attachments for this add-on. So it is something that will be available down the road along with some other more powerful features for managing Notifications such as conditional logic on the email content, etc.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday July 26, 2010 | Permalink
  5. Any news on this at all?

    Posted 13 years ago on Saturday September 25, 2010 | Permalink
  6. Nothing new to report on this feature. We're currently wrapping up development of the PayPal add-on and once that's done will be looking at other things like this.

    Posted 13 years ago on Sunday September 26, 2010 | Permalink
  7. Kevin - Would you by any chance have a timeline for when you'll make the decision to work on it or not?

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday September 27, 2010 | Permalink
  8. There is no timetable for this feature. We work on major features and then add minor features as time permits. So while we map out when we are going to add larger features to the plugin, minor features are added ad hoc depending on how long we think it will take us to implement and balancing that out with a target release date. So we couldn't give you a timetable.

    Why the need to do it as a file attachment? Can't you just link to the file in your notification email or are you worried people will be able to share the link? If so we plan on allowing shortcodes to be used in the notification email body in the next major release so once we do you could use an Amazon S3 expiring link shortcode in your email so the link would expire.

    Posted 13 years ago on Monday September 27, 2010 | Permalink
  9. I'm trying to do something similar to this.

    I'm doing a form registration online using wordpress, so when the user fills up the form online, the form is sent back to them (keeps a database online for us as well), in the form of a PDF. The only thing for them to do then is sign the printed pdf and submit it back to us.

    You don't have to develop this sort of feature yourself, all you really need to do is allow us to override the email sending function via hooks, then we can easily inject the attachment into the email by writing our own hooks.

    The current hooks available in GF is just insufficient for more advanced modifications. Expand the hook functionality, and that would offload such custom implementations off your shoulders and you can focus on your internal goals.

    Posted 13 years ago on Friday November 5, 2010 | Permalink

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