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jesse.glaves

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Registered: June 28, 2014

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Email Forms

Any suggestions for creating email forms within BigTree?

acutair

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Registered: November 5, 2014

Posts: 27

Re: Email Forms

My shop has a module called "Form Builder" we use. Do you have that?

jesse.glaves

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Registered: June 28, 2014

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Re: Email Forms

No. I see it in the documentation at http://www.bigtreecms.org/features/ under the extensions section. Not sure where to find it though. Is that a separate download somewhere?

acutair

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Registered: November 5, 2014

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Re: Email Forms

In our system, you can get to it from the "modules" item shown in the top level dashboard (along with "pages," "users," &c.).

I'm BRAND new to BigTree, though, so your system might be different.

jesse.glaves

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Registered: June 28, 2014

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Re: Email Forms

Yeah, nothing in there unfortunately.

acutair

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Re: Email Forms

'k, I'll let someone who knows what they're talking about chime in. ;-)

timbuckingham

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From: Baltimore, MD

Registered: April 2, 2012

Posts: 978

Re: Email Forms

Jesse,

We generally use the Form Builder module on our sites (it does as it says, it's a drag and drop interface to building forms with a bunch of field types that are specific to it -- lets you store entries in the database for CSV export, sends out emails to a list of email addresses you provide, or both). The front end template provided will probably need some style tweaks to fit your design.

I can upload a Form Builder package for you. Are you running the 4.1 or 4.0 branch?

jesse.glaves

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Re: Email Forms

Have I ever mentioned how great you guys are Tim? We are running 4.1.

Last edited by jesse.glaves (November 14, 2014 4:29pm)

timbuckingham

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Registered: April 2, 2012

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Re: Email Forms

Here's a 4.1 Form Builder package. I just did a test install of it and it seems to be working well, let me know if you have issues with it! Install in Developer -> Packages -> Install Package.

http://www.timbuckingham.com/form-builder.zip

jesse.glaves

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Registered: June 28, 2014

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Re: Email Forms

It worked perfectly, and it looks like this is just what we needed. It will make form creation really easy for website contributors that aren't necessarily power users. Are there any other packages out there that I should be aware of? We installed the events package a while ago, and it is working beautifully as well. Thanks.

timbuckingham

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From: Baltimore, MD

Registered: April 2, 2012

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Re: Email Forms

I'd say Events and Form Builder are our top 2. We also have one called "Social Feed" that we use fairly often that aggregates Twitter/YouTube/Instagram content, lets users approve it from a queue, categorize it, and pull it via a class into your front end templates / callouts.

jesse.glaves

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Registered: June 28, 2014

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Re: Email Forms

I'd be interested in Social Feed as well if you're willing to share it. We will definitely be looking at integrating social features into this iteration of our website. Thanks again!

timbuckingham

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Registered: April 2, 2012

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Re: Email Forms

Sure thing, you do most of the front end stuff through calling the BTXSocialFeed class statically. The file is fairly well documented but let me know if you have any questions.

http://www.timbuckingham.com/social-feed.zip

jesse.glaves

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Re: Email Forms

Oh thanks. I hadn't checked back here. I'll install and see how it goes.

jesse.glaves

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Re: Email Forms

Ok, I've installed the social feed extension. Everything looks like it's set up correctly. Just curious where to enter the credentials for the various feeds. Is there a configuration file for that? Do I need to make come custom settings in the backend?

Last edited by jesse.glaves (November 26, 2014 1:44pm)

timbuckingham

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From: Baltimore, MD

Registered: April 2, 2012

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Re: Email Forms

I believe they're all listed in the Service APIs section of Developer. It gives instructions for each of them on how to set them up with the OAuth flow -- if the instructions don't match the process you have to take let me know. Google's a frequent offender of moving stuff around. I try to keep the steps up to date