Posted by rpeters on October 24, 2012 at 5:57pm
I am creating a Church website. They want to be able to have a prayer request form where the user can send it to the pastor, elders, or deacon. Is there a way in organic groups to do this? Thanks.
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Webforms
The Webforms module will do just that. You can EASILY create the form and then setup the emails to go to different individuals and use tokens to include only the information you want to include.
http://drupal.org/project/webform
Entity forms
The Entity Forms module (http://drupal.org/project/entityform) can also be used to do this and you can set up the email rules using Rules (http://drupal.org/project/rules).
Core Contact Form
Even the core Contact Form module can be used in this way - you just create different 'categories', which allows the user to select what type of contact enquiry it is and then you can assign it to be sent to the appropriate person.
On most sites I would set this up with "Content Issues", which go to the site author/editor and "Technical Website Issues", which goes to webmaster. But this could just as easily be set up with categories for pastor, elders and deacon.
Whether this is sufficient for your prayer request form depends on whether you want to add more fields than the contact form offers.
Prayer Form
Yes, in typical Drupal fashion, there are numerous ways to "Get 'er done!" :-D I normally use Webforms if I want to store the submissions in a table for further reference. I use the Contact Form if I just want an email to go without keeping the info for future reference.
If you want someone to manage the prayer requests, keep a running list, let people know when the prayer has been answered and etc, I would use Webform. If you just want people notified, the contact form would be better.
Thanks everyone! I have
Thanks everyone! I have decided to do this using contact form. users will be able to send important information to pastors, elders and deacons. How do I limit sending email that if say user is not authenticated that deacon, elder, or pastor. Will not show up? Thanks
Feature Creep!
You've added a new requirement after we spent time offering various solutions to your original requirements.
The contact form is very simple and is not suitable if you want to be selective in which roles are visible to which users.
So now give us the full requirements before we offer more solutions to half-baked specifications.