Formit and System Settings

ModX: 2.2.4 PL
ForrmIt: 2.1.1
Hosting: JustHost



The problem lies in using a custom system setting for formit ([[++site_email]]). The settings for this system setting are:

Key: site_email
Name: Site Email
Description: The email that forms and other objects should direct to.
Type: Text Box
Others: Default

The issue is that this will not prepopulate the formit email sender ([[++site_email]]), while I have tried emailsender that is used for site registration and it works fine.

Any thoughts or ideas on why this is? The idea was to make a simple email tie-in that would then update all the forms on the website (there's 4 total). [ed. note: robertr last edited this post 11 years, 7 months ago.]

What is the namespace of the System Setting? It might have to be core or formit.

You may also have to flush all settings once in order to MODX to see the new setting.


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Namespace is currently assigned to 'core'. I will try to make one assigned to formit if possible.

How do I flush all the settings (assuming its a setting cache, rather than actual settings?)

Thanks for your help Bob.

It's the "Flush all Settings" option on the "Security" menu (Manager top menu).

BTW, there is already an emailsender System Setting that might do what you want.



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Although it doesn't answer your question, I use chunks rather than a custom system setting to set email addresses for Formit forms. I have found that it is likely that eventually a client will want different forms sent to different email addresses - one to sales, one to customer support and a third form to both!
So in the Formit call, I use &emailTo=`[[$salesFormAddress]]` in one form, &emailTo=`[[$serviceFormAddress]]` in another etc. This also has the advantage that in your chunk you can have multiple email addresses separated by a comma ([email protected],[email protected]).
Finally, I'd prefer my clients to be editing email addresses in a chunk (if they really want to - and some of them do) rather than fiddling around with system settings!