Hi, ya'll.

Before I upgraded to the latest version of Formbuilder, when users submitted a form and I got the email, the return email address was that of the user who submitted the form. Now, all I see is the Formbuilder name of the form.

What setting do I set to get the old behavior? (I confess: the whole business of specifying return email details has some of the worst nomenclature. I wish there was a setting called "Use submitter's email address").

Thanks

What you need to do here is go to Settings > Email Notices and in the FROM field, enter the NAME of your email address element on your form.

Example, place [email1] in there. This will make the email come from whatever email address is entered into the form.

Scott:
Thanks for the quick response. Naturally, no good deed goes unpunished , so I have another form field question.
When I'm customizing the email notification message, it would be swell if I could just ignore any fields that the user ignored. That is, if she didn't type in a field, I'd like to not even see it mentioned in the email notification.
Anyway to get that behavior?
Thanks!

If it doesn't matter if the person filled out the field then why put it on the form in the first place. Aren't you dieing to know what their choice would be?

why have required and optional fields?
if it's optional, and they didn't fill it out, I'd like to excise that from my email report

All you need to do then is go to the Settings > Email Notices > Configure Email Message and remove [_form_results_] and insert each element individually. When someone fills out the form, only the elements that had information entered will be displayed.

Thanks Scott, even I didn't realize that

Not sure this is the proper place to add this.....

I am NOT looking forward to this.... I have 186 fields to do! It's an Employment Application, took me quite a while to do this form. And now of course, the HR folks don't like getting just the filled in fields. They WANT to see the same form as it is displayed on the applicant's web browser. That's going to take a lot more time to rebuild another form to use in the notification email. I told them that for now I can get them the results in in a list form, but now that is going to be quite time consuming also. Argh.... inserting 186 field into the box. One.... by...one.... yuk.

Hence the reason it would be really really nice to have something like a [_complete_form_results_] option. I think that's really what people here are asking for as I search through these forums. (using the search term of notification email)
I hope this makes sense to you all.

Thanks for listening!
Bob

Tell your HR folks that if it didn't get filled out, it doesn't show on the form. How much clearer can it be that the person didn't fill out a specific area than when you get the results.

To something better for them, make a printed list of all the fields for them so they can just compare what's filled out with what's missed lol. Really, I would tell them straight up that doing what they want is not the norm in any way nor should they even want to waste paper (because you know they will print the stupid things out) for a hundred plus empty fields lol. Very stupid idea on their parts

Not going to work.
The old one sends back pretty much the form as seen on the site, that's what they want. Nothing less.

OK, I've found this answer in multiple threads in the forums..... so others are looking for this also.

"All you need to do then is go to the Settings > Email Notices > Configure Email Message and remove [_form_results_] and insert each element individually. When someone fills out the form, only the elements that had information entered will be displayed."

I am NOT looking forward to this.... here's why - I have 186 fields to do! It's an Employment Application, took me quite a while to do this form. And now of course, the HR folks don't like getting just the filled in fields. They WANT to see the same form as it is displayed on the applicant's web browser. That's going to take a lot more time to rebuild another form to use in the notification email. I told them that for now I can get them the results in in a list form, but now that is going to be quite time consuming also. Argh.... inserting 186 field into the box. One.... by...one.... yuk.

Hence the reason it would be really really nice to have something like a [_complete_form_results_] option. I think that's really what people here are asking for as I search through these forums. (using the search term of notification email)
I hope this makes sense to you all.

Thanks for listening!
Bob