Stephen Sherrard

Sorry for the delay. I just returned yesterday from 3 weeks in Africa.
I will need to try to recreate your trigger to do some more specific testing on some of your issues, but here are some initial responses to your questions:

1. Is there specific syntax required for template tags like {sheet_url} to work correctly in the message body?

You need to make sure you have selected a page for the signup sheets main shortcode in the settings of the main/free plugin. The URL is based on the permalink for that page. So, if you have not set a page, then the sheet_url template tag will not be able to create a link for you.

2. Are custom field tags from the Volunteer Sign Up Sheets Custom Fields plugin supported within the “SIGNUPS loop template”? I couldn’t find mention of this in the documentation.

As the Automated emails plugin is relatively new, and has only a few users so far, I do not believe that I have had time to get around to adding support for custom fields yet. However, the newer template tags class I added in the newer versions of the main/free plugin should already work with Custom fields template tags. I will need to go through my code and see if I have updated the Automated Emails plugin to use the newer template tags class in the find/replace methods. It’s possible that the hook priorities just need to be adjusted so that the hooks from Custom Fields can get processed before the Automated emails plugin hooks into and uses the template tags helper methods. I will look into this and follow up. No need to submit a feature request, as this is something that “should” work, or that I will add soon.

4. For the second issue: Is there a setting I need to configure to ensure all signups for a user are displayed in the email, not just one per person?

Again, I will need to check the code before I make an absolute declaration, but this is by far my most complicated plugin, and I’ve made several revisions to try to get this working in a way that makes sense for the most users, although it was initially created as a subsidized development project for a specific customer and their specific use case. This would most likely fall into a feature request type of situation where I would need to add some additional code, and potentially another “loop” template, to deal with a single volunteer (single email) having multiple signups. Right now, although I need to double-check my code, I believe it’s just going to find the first matching signup for each email that the trigger is sending an email to, especially since you checked the box to show only matching signups instead of all signups. Most likely I need to add some code and perhaps an additional option to fetch ALL the matching signups for each email. It gets extremely complex trying to figure out which sheet info to use and which signups to use for each trigger since there are so many possible settings… what makes sense for one type of trigger doesn’t always make sense for another, and it’s been a challenge to get things working in a way that makes sense for most cases.

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• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets Customizer
• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets – Original Extension Bundle
• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets – Extended Bundle
• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets Complete Bundle

This content is restricted to buyers of:

• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets Custom Fields
• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets Complete Bundle
• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets – Extended Bundle
• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets – Original Extension Bundle

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• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets Calendar Display
• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets – Original Extension Bundle
• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets Complete Bundle
• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets – Extended Bundle

This content is restricted to buyers of:

• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets Custom Fields
• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets Complete Bundle
• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets – Extended Bundle
• Volunteer Sign Up Sheets – Original Extension Bundle

Please read the documentation:
https://stephensherrardplugins.com/docs/pta-volunteer-sign-up-sheets-documentation/
You can put whatever you want in the email templates. Go to the settings, then the email settings tab, and edit the templates for the various emails to say exactly what you want, and add/remove the template tags for what you want to show.

This will be in the new 4.6.0 release, along with several other new features, that should be released this coming week.
I know your request was a couple of years ago, but have been doing a bit of reworking and adding some requested features, and this was a fairly easy feature to add.
Thanks for your support!

The new version of the Custom Fields extension now has layout blocks where you can add HTML in various locations within the signup form template. There are several fixed locations for the default signup form, plus you can also select a position after any custom field that you add. So, this would allow you to add hr fields to the signup form to break up sections. Check out the documentation for more information.