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I see the channel ‘Enable recipient list below for channel entry notification?’.  Documentation makes me think it’s got to be a static recipient.

Can I sent an email to the author?

Thanks
Amanda

EE doesn’t provide notifications to the author natively, no, only comments - but there is an add-on called MX Notify that might get you to that functionality.  It allows you to set up entry notifications to a variable of {mbr_email}, which I think would be the email of the author/logged in user, but I’m not certain - the documentation on the add-on is a bit sparse.  But that seems like it might be what that variable would do - either that or it could be the logged in user’s email.  There’s a pretty robust add-on for EE1 from Solspace called Entry Notifications, but it’s not available for EE2 that I’ve seen.

I don’t completely grasp what you’re looking for from a functionality perspective - are you aiming simply to have an email copy of what the person has submitted as an entry be sent to that submitter?

The other way you could do this, though not actually a channel entry, would be Freeform from Solspace.  Freeform submissions can behave like channel entries, with the ability to display the entries in your site AND with more robust notification preferences than EE provides natively.  Just a thought.  But items added that way, since they’re not actually channel entries, wind up being somewhat compartmentalized/isolated from your other content, with no ability to create relationships between freeform entries and regular channel entries, as an example of such a limitation.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for the MX Notify suggestion.  Unfortunately the {mbr_email} address can only be used for member creation triggers.  Even when I put a static address in, it wouldn’t trigger with SafeCracker, only when entries were created in the control panel.

Functionally, my site is a bit like fiverr.  User’s create profiles and then create an entry other’s can pledge towards.  I wanted an email sent to the user saying “thanks for your entry, here’s the link, share it with all your friends.”

Looks like it might be time to test my php skills by making my own extension.  Fingers crossed, everyone.

Aha!  Hidden in the MX Notify it was suggested to use {author_email}.  It worked.
Thanks