Birthday email with auto action

Hi, is it possible to send an email to users for their birthday using an autoaction?

If yes, would you suggest me the procedure?


Thanks in advice.

crealiagroup wrote: Hi, is it possible to send an email to users for their birthday using an autoaction?

If yes, would you suggest me the procedure?


Thanks in advice.

Since you are a Developer you have access to CBSubs and it has a very powerful mailer feature that you can use to accomplish this.

Hi Nant, thanks for reply. Before installing CBSubs, that we dont really need for this website, we would try first an easier solution. So we just use auto actions for other purposes and meanwhile installing CBSubs just for that need we would try first with an autoaction if possibile.

Thanks in advice.

Setup an email action to check if their birthdate field is equal to today in the conditionals. It should use the Internal Users trigger. Next setup a CRON task for the internal users URL found within CB Auto Actions > Config > Internal. Have it run daily. That should give you what you're wanting.

Thanks Kyle for reply.
How should I set the condition? Could you please give me the correct parts?

You'd need to use the CB date substitution and the substitution for your date field. You'd then to use one of the special conditional functions to make it strtotime so they can compare. Example as follows.

Conditional: strtotime([cb_birthdate]) Equal To strtotime([cb:date format="Y-m-d" /])

This should compare the users cb_birthdate date field to the current year month and day to see if they match.