Dynamic topic field in email

Marc Hjorth

Posted on 09/11/2018 12:48:15

I'm sending a mail to a user through a form. I pasted a part of the template below. The template is a part of a Forms for editors-module.

I figured out you can control the topic, by using a hidden field like this:

<input type="hidden" name="ForgotPasswordMailSubject" value="Topic goes here" />

Here is the template I use

<form action="@formAction" class="@formCssClass" enctype="multipart/form-data" id="@formId" method="post" name="@formId" onsubmit="@formOnSubmit">
@formSystemFields

<div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-9 col-md-pull-3">
        <div class="form-group">
            <label>Foreningens navn</label>
            <input class="form-control" id="Foreningensnavn" name="Foreningensnavn" placeholder="" required="" type="text">
        </div> ...

I would like to use whatever the user types in the "Foreningsnavn" field, to be shown in the topic of the mail, is this possible?

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Nicolai Pedersen

Posted on 09/11/2018 13:51:40

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If it is a custom template, you can add a bit of javascript to do that:

function setSubject() {
    var field = document.getElementById("Foreningensnavn");
    var subjectField = document.getElementById("MailSubject");
    subjectField.value = field.value;
}

</script>

Note: The hidden field should probably be called MailSubject and not ForgotPasswordMailSubject.

BR Nicolai

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Marc Hjorth

Posted on 13/11/2018 11:39:27

Thanks for the answer, it almost works as intended.

The subject gets set to the value of field, but it also contains a comma in front of the subject, and I can't seem to figure out why.

var subjectField = document.getElementById("MailSubject");
subjectField.value = "some value";

Setting the subject like this also makes the "," appear in front of the subject.

Setting the subject to a static value like this however doesn't show a comma in the mail.

<input type="hidden" name="MailSubject" value="some value" />

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Marc Hjorth

Posted on 16/11/2018 10:56:07

Figured it out.

You should make a hidden field from the forms for editors tool in the backend with the name "MailSubject".

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