Multiple Emails in PTA Signup

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    • #10913
      Michael Hentrich
      Participant

      Hi. From what I’ve read in the documentation and other forum posts, I should be able to input multiple emails when someone signs up for a volunteer role.

      Yet, when I go to sign someone up and I put in two emails: xyz@gmail.com,xyz2@gmail.com and then of course do the same for the confirm email field, it gives me an invalid email error. I went into the code and disabled the error checking system for emails, but I still only got one email sent to me. Is this really possible to do, and if so, how?

    • #10915
      Stephen Sherrard
      Keymaster

      Can you give me a link to the documentation or posts where it says you can input more than one email on the signup form? That is not, nor has it even been, a feature of the plugin.

      The only place you can enter multiple emails, separated by commas, is for the contacts on the sheets when you are creating the sheet (on the admin side).

      On the public side, the validation checks for a valid email address using the built-in WordPress email validation function. That function validates a single email address. It is not set up to validate multiple emails in one text input field.

    • #10917
      Michael Hentrich
      Participant

      I see. Thank you for clarifying that. I must have misunderstood those statements that you mentioned, thinking they applied to volunteer signups on the frontend.

    • #10919
      Stephen Sherrard
      Keymaster

      No problem.

      If this is something that you need, and would potentially like to see it added as a future feature, please feel free to add it to the feature requests section. Please be as detailed and specific as possible, since I’m interested in trying to understand why a single person signing up for something would need to enter more than one email address.

      I did have sort of the opposite situation asked of me the other day, where they were using the sheets to sign up kids for events, and the parents wanted to sign up more than one kid for the same event using the same email address (parent’s email), but they had it set not to allow duplicates, or because they were logged in and the name didn’t match the email the info was getting changed… something along those lines — there were wanting to use the same email in more than one signup with different names. That one I can understand. But, I don’t quite understand why one person would need to be enter more than one email address for notifications/reminders.

    • #10921
      Michael Hentrich
      Participant

      I understand. In my situation, our church has a sign up and people volunteer to cook meals, do cleaning, etc. Since, whole families sign up for, cooking lunch for example, it is helpful to send an email to both the husband and the wife.

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