[SOLVED] Auto Actions to send email?

Hi there,

Trying to do a couple of things and think Auto Actions is probably the way to do it but can't figure it out so looking for some help.

1. When a user accepts a connection I would like an email to be sent to BOTH users.

1. When a user accepts a connection I would like an email to be sent to BOTH users.

Can't it only translates the first user_id it finds into a user object. You can access the recipient user_id with [var2] thought.

2. What's my easiest way to add a link to a profile that allows a user to add multiple email addresses in the 'To' field but with an editable pre-populated subject and body, including a link to the user profile, to recommend that someone looks at that user's profile. I basically need a way in which one user can easily send a link to someone elses profile to an external email address with some text to refer them to external people. Hope that makes sense!

You want a link that sends an email? I'm confused. You could use the below if I understand correctly in a delimiter field I suppose.

<a href="mailto:

Sorry about the confusing way I wrote this!

1. Not sure I understand how to access the second user_id with [var2]. How do I identify the user_id of the person that they connected to?

2. That's such a simple solution - don't know why I didn't think of it! Sorry to waste your time on it.

In the meantime, I've also been trying to sort a list by the cb rating field. For some reason it is not in my list of fields to sort by. It is published and is included in my list as a visible field but just not given as an option in the 'sort by' dropdown. Help please.

1. Not sure I understand how to access the second user_id with [var2]. How do I identify the user_id of the person that they connected to?

[var2] gives the user_id of the user they're adding a connection request to. You can't get email or name from this though. It's just their ID. Connections already sends notifications however, which you can configure from CB > Configuration > Connections.

In the meantime, I've also been trying to sort a list by the cb rating field. For some reason it is not in my list of fields to sort by. It is published and is included in my list as a visible field but just not given as an option in the 'sort by' dropdown. Help please.

I see both my rating fields in the Sort By dropdown list. Ensure the tab the field is on is published as well.

1. I'll try to figure this out - thanks.

2. I was looking at avg_rating_field from profile book rather than the rating field. I have now added the rating field as a field and can see that in my lists. However, it is the ajax field that appears rather than an average of ratings. How do I get the average rating for ratings that have been submitted by individual users? Do I have to use a Query field or is this automatic somehow? NB: if it isn't automatic for an average field to be generated then how is this rating field supposed to work? I applied the fix for J2.5 but I don't see the rating that's been made anywhere (except if I look in the database) - Help please!

Thank you again.

You can't sort by count. The rating field will provide their actual rating. Sorting by count is a bit misleading as it doesn't imply a better rating. So the way it functions now is correct. You can't sort by CB Query Fields as they're calculated fields (it doesn't store anything to database to sort by).