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I defined a new global variable contact_recipients to hold the email address of the recipeint, change the invocation to read

{exp:email:contact_form redirect="3" user_recipients="false" recipients="{contact_recipients}" charset="utf-8"}

and get back: “Your email had no valid recipients.” when I submit.

If I place {contact_recipients} as text inside the email form it seems to have the correct value.

Am I doing anything wrong?

Charlie, see this thread about using Fresh Variables instead.

This is a limitation of user defined global variables:

Also note that Global Variables are one of the last things parsed in your Templates. This means that you cannot use a Global Variable as the value for an EE Tag parameter.

You could use Fresh Variables for this instead.

I defined a new global variable contact_recipients to hold the email address of the recipeint, change the invocation to read

{exp:email:contact_form redirect="3" user_recipients="false" recipients="{contact_recipients}" charset="utf-8"}

and get back: “Your email had no valid recipients.” when I submit.

I fixed it by changing my call to

{exp:email:contact_form redirect="3" user_recipients="false" recipients=contact_recipients charset="utf-8"}

Why? I thought the {} was required for variable substitution. Now does this mean that the global variable has to contain quotes if has multiple recipients? (Posted after Lisa and Sue’s responses, question still remains)

Correction: I didn’t fix it I made the error message go away. Will RTFM as suggested

Charlie, let us know when you get this working.

Working now. Thanks for your help

Glad to see Sue was able to help 😊 Please don’t hesitate to post again as needed.