Including Field Data In The Email Subject Line
Back in November we added to the capability to include the email address of the person sending you the form in your email subject line text.
The main benefit of adding field data to the email subject line text is that it can help you to scan and sort your incoming form data easier. So to make this even better, following a suggestion from Steve at Saint Specialties, we have done a little more work, and now - for regular, non-secure forms - you can choose to include the data from any field in the email subject line text! (any field, but it needs to be a web-form-buddy required field).
For secure (SSL) forms it would not be safe to include the data in the email subject line as it would not be encrypted. However if you have a field in your form for an email address (and you make it a web-form-buddy required field and you switch on the email validation rule), then you are able to use that.
To set up and use this feature you go to your control panel, select configure form and then select email options.
First add the special tag marker to your email subject line text. This marker will be replaced by the data from the form field.
The tag marker is: !FIELD!
Then choose the field that you want to use to replace the tag marker from the list of required fields.
Hey presto - you’re done!
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Not so with Richard, his staff at smallgreentree and WFB. Like any small business we have had our share of minor troubles due to ISP’s servers etc. Every time we have a problem or question, even if it does not involve WFB, Richard is Johnny on the Spot to respond - or in this case, take a customer idea and implement it.
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Steve & Kathy Van Wie
Saint Specialties
Wisconsin USA
Comment by Steve Van WIe — December 14, 2006 @ 2:48 pm