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Hi All,

I’m trying to set the recipients of a contact form using a user-defined global variable so the client can easily change it. However:

{exp:email:contact_form user_recipients="false" recipients="{gv-form-recipient}" charset="utf-8"}
(formy goodness)
{/exp:email:contact_form}

This throws a “Your email had no valid recipients” error. Changing from the global variable to the email address works, and printing the global variable as text inside the form also works. I also tried calling it using an embed variable

(to call the form snippet)
{embed="snippet/f-contact" the_recipient="{gv-form-recipient}"}

(form snippet including embed)
{exp:email:contact_form user_recipients="false" recipients="{embed:the_recipient}" charset="utf-8"}
(formy goodness)
{/exp:email:contact_form}

The manual page mentions these not working in member profile templates. Should it be working here?

TIA

peace - oli

You cannot use user defined global variables as tag parameters (as per the documentation you linked to 😊 ).

You may want to consider an alternative such as fresh variables.

Hahaha, that’s embarrassing—I actually just glanced at the code snippet and thought it was a correct example! Maybe the note needs that nice red background too 😉

Good to know, and thanks for the link to fresh variables!

peace - oli

Let us know how that works out for you.

Thanks.