Email to user meta field

While I am looking at another issue today, I am looking at whether or not I can add this at the same time.

Do you think the filter should supersede the standard settings for Mass Email and Post/Page Notifications or should it be another Send Option completely? I am inclined to make it a new Send option so you would have “Send to User(s)”, “Send to Group(s)” and a new item “Send to Custom List” (or something similar) that would only appear if the filter was defined.

Thoughts?

I agree with making it another send option that is only visible if the custom user meta is defined.

I have posted a beta release that has this requested functionality. Please check it out and let me know if it allows you to do what you want to do.

Hey Mike, this new beta does work but I was expecting something that would work more like ‘Send to Groups’ rather than ‘Send to Users’.

I guess I wanted something more along the lines of

mailusers_register_custom_meta_filter($label, $meta_filter);

This would then return a page similar to ‘Send to Groups’ where I would select the ‘$label – $meta_value’ from the list. The $meta_value would be returned automatically based upon all the returned values for $meta_filter.

In my case something like the following

mailusers_register_custom_meta_filter(‘Department’, ‘drmc_department’);

I would want this to return the array of values to select from in a group like

Department – Medicine
Department – Surgery
Department – Pediatrics
etc

This would work the same way selecting a Role works.

That way I could make only a single add_action for each $meta_filter. If I wanted to keep the more fine grained search as currently exists then what you’ve got works.

Does that make sense?

Yes, what you’ve outlined makes sense. Let me see what I can do. I’ll probably break it up into two things – Custom User Filter and Custom Group Filter. Looks like I was 0-2 on your issues!

Credit where credit is due. As a dev your looking at my issues and feature requests. ??

Maybe 0.5 – 2, after all I can now send to groups based upon meta values, just not how I was thinking. If you want I can set up some data on my dev site, get you some admin credentials and you can test there if you want.

I have released another beta candidate that I think will address the use model you are looking for. Let me know what you think.

Mike, this isn’t substantially different. It’s just in this version with groups I can’t see to whom the email is addressed, not that it matters. I still have to individually add each $meta_filter and $meta_value to the function.

What I was envisioning, and what the code I made does, is to enable the user to just list the $meta_filter and have the code return an array of all the $meta_values for that $meta_filter. The code would place something like ‘Filter – $label – $meta_value[$i]’ for the whole list of meta_values that correspond to the listed meta_filter.

The function would only have 2 parameters ($label, $meta_filter) as the $meta_values would be discovered.

If you want to put this up on Github I’d be happy to help.

I had some time work on this on my flight to Phoenix this week and have just uploaded a new beta version which I think is closer to what you are looking for. Details are here.

Brilliant! Works exactly as I expected.

Excellent news. I will try and get an update out in the next day or so.

Andrew,
I too am trying to implement this and am grateful to Mike for working hard to add this function.
I wonder how you got this too work with Cimy User Extra Users fields. I can’t see how to address the actual field, which in my case is called DIOCESE within Cimy.

Grateful for any clues
thank you

Graham, I couldn’t use Cimy User Extra as it doesn’t create real user meta fields. You’ll need to create real user meta fields from other code or another plugin.

Just as I suspected, but thanks for the confirmation

So another re-build looks line it is on the cards?!?! ARRH!