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Formatting email form results

March 23, 2012 5:37pm

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  • #1 / Mar 23, 2012 5:37pm

    Unbridled Books

    16 posts

    Hi,

    I’m creating a form that users can fill out with relevant data that is to be emailed to the CEO of the company.  The email module works fine and the emails arrive as they should.

    My question though, is can the resulting emails be formatted to be a little more user friendly?

    Currently, it only returns the result of what is entered in the field.  I was wondering if we could customize the output to have it read for example….

    Name:  John Smith
    Address: 123 Elm Street
    etc.

    instead of…

    John Smith
    123 Elm Street

    Thanks
    Warren Austin

  • #2 / Mar 25, 2012 9:48am

    Sean C. Smith

    3818 posts

    Hi Warren,

    That’s not currently possible with the contact form built into ExpressionEngine. I would recommend using Solspace Freeform as it will allow you to format your emails in exactly the way you want.

    Does that help?

    Sean

  • #3 / Mar 25, 2012 9:56am

    Unbridled Books

    16 posts

    Yes, that’s very helpful.  Thank you.

    Warren Austin

  • #4 / Mar 27, 2012 6:14pm

    Sean C. Smith

    3818 posts

    Excellent glad I could help. I’m going to close out this thread, but feel free to post again when you have more questions.

    Sean

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