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Adrian Wackernah
Member

I am using my own stuff in the e-mail notifications form. All is fine except the url to the uploaded image file is very long. Is there a kind of shortcut or merge command I can use to shorten that url like as, if I use {all_fields}?

Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday November 21, 2012 | Permalink
David Peralty

There isn't a built-in URL shortening system built in. Can you tell me more about what you mean and what you are seeing?

Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday November 21, 2012 | Permalink
Adrian Wackernah
Member

Hi David,
I get this on screen as confirmation and in a notification e-mail:

http://www.posterdruck.biz/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/4-0cbb19ce75b966cb7e69a3add161ff65/2012/11/DSC00931.jpg

It would be nice, if I can capsule this in a link were name of the file is displayed - html-link

Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday November 21, 2012 | Permalink
David Peralty
In your notifications, can you do the following?
```
<a href="{img merge tag}">Image Uploaded</a>
```
Posted 11 years ago on Wednesday November 21, 2012 | Permalink
Adrian Wackernah
Member

Hi David, thanks. I put it into the admin notification form in the html view. What I get in my e-mail is now "Image Upload" as link.
How if there will be the original filename? Is there a shortcode for only filename?

Posted 11 years ago on Friday November 23, 2012 | Permalink
David Peralty

There are, scroll down to the bottom of this page and read about merge tags relating to getting specific information:

http://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/page/Merge_Tags

Posted 11 years ago on Friday November 23, 2012 | Permalink

Hi David, I just found few minutes for testing this, but it doesn't seem to work. I created a new form only with a uploading field. That has the label "Datei". When I upload a file to my server, I receive a basic notification from merge_tag {all_fields}. The E-Mail looks like this:

<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
     <tr bgcolor="#EAF2FA">
          <td colspan="2">
                <font style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size:12px;"><strong>Datei</strong></font>
           </td>
      </tr>
      <tr bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
           <td width="20">&nbsp;</td>
           <td>
                <font style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size:12px;"><a href='http://bildmanufaktur-wackernah.de/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/7-a68c67528abfb3690327bf5c8bff4a1a/2012/11/art-000381.jpg' target='_blank' title='Klicken zum Anschauen'>art-000381.jpg</a></font>
          </td>
     </tr>
</table>

---

I am not shure how to get this and which merge_tags I have to put in my notification?

This doesn't seem to work:
<a href='{Datei:1:url}' target='_blank' title='Klicken zum Anschauen'>{List:1:url}</a>

and this too:
{Datei:1:url}

Which markup do I have to use?

Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday November 27, 2012 | Permalink

David Peralty

The :url call should work. What do you get currently when you do {Datei:1:url}? Is Datei the field and 1 the field ID number?

Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday November 27, 2012 | Permalink
Adrian Wackernah
Member

Yes, if I use {Datei:1:url} equal to {name_of_field:id:url} I get the whole path as before. I use the file upload field from advanced fields tab.

I need to separate the original filename from the path as it is done if I use {all_fields} merge_tag.

Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday November 27, 2012 | Permalink
Adrian Wackernah
Member

This what I used latest:

<a href='{Datei:1}' target='_blank' title='Klicken zum Anschauen'>{Datei:1:url}</a>

I did all tests with form preview, but that should not be the case didn't it?

Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday November 27, 2012 | Permalink
David Peralty
So you want the following?
```
<a href="URL to image" rel="nofollow">IMG NAME</a>
```
Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday November 27, 2012 | Permalink
Adrian Wackernah
Member

Yes David, same as the basic table output from {all_fields}:

<a href='http://bildmanufaktur-wackernah.de/wp-content/uploads/gravity_forms/7-a68c67528abfb3690327bf5c8bff4a1a/2012/11/art-000381.jpg' target='_blank' title='Klicken zum Anschauen'>art-000381.jpg</a>

Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday November 27, 2012 | Permalink
Chris Hajer
Key Master

Adrian, please see this code I wrote a while back.

http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/extract-file-upload-name-in-email-notification#post-69404

In short, I did not find a way to get the filename, so I created a shortcode to grab it. You can use the shortcode in your notification.

Posted 11 years ago on Thursday November 29, 2012 | Permalink