Sending form to author of post

Hi,

Got the same problem. Don't know anything about php or coding, thats why I bought your plugin.

Just want to be able to select somewhere author-email instead of a fixed admin email and it goes straight to the author.

How can I get that?

Thanks

ok thanks

I thought my question would be relevant to this post. I'm utilizing the GF_THEME_IMPORT_FILE to create forms automatically on each of the sites I create in my Wordpress MS install. However, I'm also trying to dynamically load the owner of each site's email into the form. I have forgone that part of the code to just get the base to work which is filtering all Gravity Forms to send a notification to a single email address. This is my code:

add_filter( 'gform_notification_email', 'route_notification', 10, 2 );
function route_notification($email_to, $entry) {
	$email_to = 'email@address.com';
	return $email_to;
}

I can't imagine this being any simpler, but it's not working. Do I still need to set the notifications in the back end to a random email address then this will change it? How do I make this work?

@Carl yes...I do not want them to manage on the back end. In fact, they don't even have access to it on the back end. So, the idea is I'm actually going to pull in dynamically their email address they fill in on their user profile and that will be the email address it uses by default. If they want to change where all their contact information is going to they have to change their user profile information is the plan.

Nonetheless, when I create a form and submit it nothing is being sent to the email address I declare here. I am declaring it just the way I posted above. I have not even inserted the code to dynamically pull in the site owners email address. Do I need to also set with the filter the subject and a body maybe for it to work?

I believe it was just that I didn't have it configured properly on the backend. Thank you for the help. I have it working now.

Ok I will attempt to repost this. I believe it just got lost.

I have tried this code:

add_filter( 'gform_notification_email_4', 'route_notification', 10, 2 );
function route_notification($email_to, $entry) {
	global $post;
	$email_to = get_the_author_email();
	return $email_to;
}

On a new situation where I'm trying to send Form ID 4 to the email of a custom post type's author. However, it is not working for any reason. Am I missing something in the code?

Works great, but I need the email to be sent to the administrator of the website aswell!

http://www.pastie.org/1864422
'email_verkoper' is an emailaddress in a custom field.
This email is sent, and the user gets a copy. But, the BCC fields in Gravity Forms aren't working. No BCC is sent. How otherwise can I have a third email sent to the owner of the website?

Hi David,

Sorry didn't see you answered... notification email wasn't sent :-(

Yes I tried a different email. Tried multiple combination's and emailadresses. To be sure it wasn't a spamfilter stopping emails coming through or issues with the same domainname etc...

BCC without the changes works... but with the changes it doesn't. Bit in a bother cause deadline is running fast towards me with huge big teeth... Hope you can help!

Without the extra code for using the custom field in functions.php
Sorry.

Okay thnx, will try this tomorrow. Not trying to send to the author though... but to an email that is set in a customfield... but I understand you and will try. Great! I'll let you know what the outcome is!

Hi, problem not solved. Cause I need 3 emails to be sent.
1. to the form submitter
2. to the emailadres populated in the custom field 'email_verkoper'
3. a copy of either emails to the owner of the website

The script addition in functions.php works great, but then the BCC field bugs it up. No emails are sent. The second solution given, doesn't fit the needs cause then the formsubmitter doesn't get an email. I tried putting the field code (ex {E-mailadres:3}) in the emailfields, but that doesn't work.

And now I have a second problem. The emailtemplate for the user notification doesn't work (didn't edit it so why it's broken no idea). I deleted it and put it back, but nothing works. Even emptied it and just put ' test' in it, but it ignores that.

Could somebody at Gravity forms please help? I can send the address (ip address and domain for in the hosts file, cause site isn't live yet) and I am willing to pay for the help.

info@coldcoffee.nl

@Carl: thnx but that is the problem. When I fill in an emailaddress in the BCC field, the form stops working and doesn't send any email. That's why I would love to see an addition to the extra script with a hardcoded BCC.

I know it should work, but it doesn't. After hours unpaid work for trying to solve this I'm risking missing the deadline and even more unpaid hours. So I would love just a small addition to the script (see my first post) where I can hardcode the BCC email.

@Carl and that doesn't work. Putting an email in the notification settings does not work. No emails are sent (must be because of the script I'm using: http://www.pastie.org/1864422). What I mean by hardcoding is: forcing it to work by putting the BCC emailaddress in the template file, GF file or functions.php.

Hi Snap,

Looking at your code, I don't see why this would prevent the submission or updating of posts? If you comment out this code are you able to submit and update posts once more?