Multiple emails in autoresponse from field values?

[rodev]

Just curious if anyone knows how (if possible) to have the autoresponder send out different emails based on user selections within the form.

Example: What is your favorit color? Blue [ ] Red [ ]

depending on what the user selects a tailored template is used for the autoresponse.

Anyway, hope that is clear.

Thanks a ton!

[crabtree]

name your radio button "autorespond" and set the value to "PlainTemplate=blue.txt" for blue or "PlainTemplate=red.txt" for red

everything in formmail works with fields, how you generate them is up to you

[rodev]

That makes sense, but I have two other potential problems. I am using a multiform. How would this work if the determining selection was made on an earlier form? Also, what if I want the field to have an actual value that gets passes on, not just used for the autoresponse.

Thanks for your help!!!

[crabtree]

ok, so on the form that has the selection, you call the field "autorespondvalue" (or anything you like)

then, on the last form (before the email gets sent) you do this:

<input type="hidden" name="autorespond" value="$autorespondvalue" />

[rodev]

crabtree,

Thank you so much for your help. I got the function working flawlessly. The only problem I have now is that the selection made value shows up as references to templates in a later page of the form (this is no surprise).

For example. I have a preview page prior to submission and the field in question is "Will you attend" [ ]yes [ ]no. Depending of course on the answer a different email is sent. This is working, however, I would like to somehow display the answer to this question on the preview page without the values showing as Plaintemplate=no_confim.txt etc.... Is there a way around this?

Again thanks for your help, and I hope the above is clear!

Ray

[crabtree]

you can build pretty much any field you like with derive_fields

this guide tells you: http://www.tectite.com/fmhowto/derived.php

theres a new feature i havent used called "conditional derivation" - i think its what you need.