Gift Subscription Question

I tried to create a merchandise gift plan instead of the subscription gift plan to resolve the issue of gift plan expiration. When i try to assign it from backend to a test user i get...

An error has occurred.
1048 Column 'parent_plan' cannot be null

Anyway i switched back to subscription gift plan and set the validity time to 10 days. (No big problem in my case, but maybe you should check the "merchandise gift plan" solution for other members here).

Then to remove the "subscription gift plan" after usage from subscription update possibilities i created another type CB Paid Subscriptions auto action, set user: self, conditions: field->cb_gifts, User -> Viewing user, Operator -> Not equal, Value -> 1 and in Action Tab: Mode -> Delete, Plans -> The plan that i want to be deleted.

Then i added this auto action to the Type Action and there we are. An automated gift subscription is ready.

Now there is only one point that needs to be resolved!

Right now, after gift subscription activation, User A (the one who offers the gift) is redirected back to his profile. Is it possible to redirect him back to user B (the one who received the gift) profile?

Also... is it possible to create a mail auto action that will inform user B (the one who received the gift), that User A (the one who offers the gift) has activated a gift subscription for him? Because now User B gets a gift without knowing from whom.

Thank you!

I tried to create a merchandise gift plan instead of the subscription gift plan to resolve the issue of gift plan expiration. When i try to assign it from backend to a test user i get...

Not sure I understand what your process was. So you were trying to give someone a merchandise plan from backend to do what exactly? That plan would increment your gift field?

1048 Column 'parent_plan' cannot be null

Very strange error since merchandise plans don't even create subscription rows. Enable debug mode and maximum error reporting in Joomla global configuration then retry to see if there's any more information to the error. I'm not seeing any errors when trying to give a merchandise plan to a user in backend. Please also provide Joomla version, PHP version, and database version.

Right now, after gift subscription activation, User A (the one who offers the gift) is redirected back to his profile. Is it possible to redirect him back to user B (the one who received the gift) profile?

Ensure the redirect is on Action 3 via its Output parameters and the below should be sending you back to that users profile.

[cb:url location="profile_view" /]

Also... is it possible to create a mail auto action that will inform user B (the one who received the gift), that User A (the one who offers the gift) has activated a gift subscription for him? Because now User B gets a gift without knowing from whom.

You can add as many actions as you want to Action 3. So for example create an email action and configure the email to send however you like then add it to Action 3. By default the recipient user should be the user being gifted a subscription unless you set User to Self so technically you could send an email to both users if you wanted. To let them know who sent the gift you can use user="#me" usage in your substitutions. The below for example would be the name of the person who sent the gift subscription.

[cb:userdata field="name" user="#me" /]

Everything works properly Krileon!

Thank you very much for your help. Thank you all for CB and it's plugins!