skoochgroup

Wow, what an insight.

Just FYI, the ONLY thing that changed from successful CF7 email sends to NOT WORKING, in my situation was an update of CF7 to 5.0

So this clearly means that the plugin CF7 has caused the issue.
I understand fully that every installation has its own unique parameters, any of which can affect any plugin’s performance, but when a plugin goes from working to not working after an update of just that plugin, then there is a problem – which is what these support forums are for.

Working through these issues is as time consuming for those using the plugin, as it may be for the plugin author – however, the plugin author knows exactly what they changed in the update – and therefore should have a better insight into what conflicts may be happening that the users (who in most instances are not expert coders, hence their use of the said plugin) are experiencing.

Some support would be appreciated !

This problem only occurred when CF7 5.0 upgraded.
It worked fine before that.

Interesting that it only happened when CF7 upgraded, but the “suggested solution” to this bug is to change to a default theme ?

This is neither practical nor helpful to most users experiencing this problem.

Exactly the same issue here.
Disappointing, since I had just placed CF7 on my trusted list for auto-updates.

OK thanks Nickolas,

I’ll use the second suggestion – just means more time recreating and styling a whole new form so suit the site theme.

Cheers.

Hey Nickolas,

Site is here:

https://perthbumperandbuff.com.au/wp-pbb/home

Hwy Nickolas,

Sorry for the delay.

Trying to replicate the problem, I uninstalled and reinstalled your plugin, then went through the settings and placed the shortcode in my form o the page.
This time, the upload snippet actually showed up (page still took quite a bit longer to load than before) but didn’t format properly (screenshot).

The debug log shows the following:

[07-Jan-2018 15:49:21 UTC] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /***/wp-content/plugins/wp-file-upload/lib/wfu_ajaxactions.php on line 405
[07-Jan-2018 15:50:32 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined index: Name: in /***/wp-content/themes/ark/functions/customizable/contact-form.php(51) : eval()’d code on line 5

There may be some sort of conflict between your plugin’s JS and that of the ARK theme.

Hey @nickboss,

Thanks for the prompt reply. I didn’t want to review the plugin since I hadn’t had time to look into it.

The plugin installed, and I could see the settings page, and set up and copy the shortcode – but once I put the shortcode in the page I wanted, it would not reload – it just hung for numerous minutes. Then I tried reloading (nothing) and even going to the plugins page to deactivate (nothing) .. then I deactivated it by FTP and everything with the site is back to normal.

I am using THE ARK theme (which is awesome, BTW) and running WP 4.9.1. I have very few plugins on this site.

What other info do you need to try to problem-solve this one ?

Thanks

Skooch

Again, for anyone playing along at home, the issue of being able to pass the GROUP data back to the MAIL form in CF7 was finally solved by DANNY at mc4wp.

The challenge I faced was twofold – when completing my form I wanted subscribers to select an Interest (GROUP) that would then be passed through to MC and the subscriber added to that GROUP.
Secondly, I wanted that choice to be sent back to the MAIL form in CF7, so in my autoresponse (MAIL 2) I could confirm their selection to them.

Danny’s response (which works brilliantly) is:

This is possible but for this to work, the plugin needs your interest category ID. It can then use the textual group name + the category to determine the actual interest group ID before sending the value off to MailChimp. You can find this interest category ID by going to the form editor in our plugin and then add the interest grouping to your form. You should see HTML that looks a bit like this.

<input name="INTERESTS[c503c0f57d][]" type="checkbox" value="0f8a0ed3bd"> <span>Group 1</span>

In this case, the part between the brackets is your interest category ID, “c503c0f57d”. Your CF7 mark-up should then read like this (in HTML, not sure about the CF7 code but I’m sure you do):

<input name="mc4wp-INTERESTS[interest-category-id][]" type="checkbox" value="Interest Group Name"> <span>My checkbox text</span>

**(the “My checkbox text” can be the same value as “Interest Group Name” if you like – which was what I needed.)

** In your MAIL tab on CF7, you then insert [mc4wp-INTERESTS] wherever you want this information to display.

For anyone playing along at home –

The solution for passing the checkbox selections (GROUP data) back to the MAIL form in CF7, was kindly provided by DANNY at mc4wp – awesome, thanks !!

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This is possible but for this to work, the plugin needs your interest category ID. It can then use the textual group name + the category to determine the actual interest group ID before sending the value off to MailChimp. You can find this interest category ID by going to the form editor in our plugin and then add the interest grouping to your form. You should see HTML that looks a bit like this.

<input name="INTERESTS[c503c0f57d][]" type="checkbox" value="0f8a0ed3bd"> <span>Group 1</span>

In this case, the part between the brackets is your interest category ID, “c503c0f57d”. Your CF7 mark-up should then read like this (in HTML, not sure about the CF7 code but I’m sure you do):

<input name="mc4wp-INTERESTS[interest-category-id][]" type="checkbox" value="Interest Group Name"> <span>My checkbox text</span>

**(the “My checkbox text” can be the same value as “Interest Group Name” if you like – which was what I needed.)

** In your MAIL tab on CF7, you then insert [mc4wp-INTERESTS] wherever you want this information to display.

Hi @delawaregrad,

I have had the same challenge, and with the awesome help of Danny from MC4WP, he has come up with a solution that works.

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This is possible but for this to work, the plugin needs your interest category ID. It can then use the textual group name + the category to determine the actual interest group ID before sending the value off to MailChimp. You can find this interest category ID by going to the form editor in our plugin and then add the interest grouping to your form. You should see HTML that looks a bit like this.

<input name="INTERESTS[c503c0f57d][]" type="checkbox" value="0f8a0ed3bd"> <span>Group 1</span>

In this case, the part between the brackets is your interest category ID, “c503c0f57d”. Your CF7 mark-up should then read like this (in HTML, not sure about the CF7 code but I’m sure you do):

<input name="mc4wp-INTERESTS[interest-category-id][]" type="checkbox" value="Interest Group Name"> <span>My checkbox text</span>

**(the “My checkbox text” can be the same value as “Interest Group Name” if you like – which was what I needed.)

** In your MAIL tab on CF7, you then insert [mc4wp-INTERESTS] wherever you want this information to display.

Hope that helps. Sorry for this being somewhat hard, we’re going to show the interest category ID in the table overview on the MailChimp for WP > MailChimp page to make this easier next time.

Hi @gubros,

I had the same challenge, and with the awesome help of Danny from MC4WP, he has come up with a solution that works.

>>>
This is possible but for this to work, the plugin needs your interest category ID. It can then use the textual group name + the category to determine the actual interest group ID before sending the value off to MailChimp. You can find this interest category ID by going to the form editor in our plugin and then add the interest grouping to your form. You should see HTML that looks a bit like this.

<input name="INTERESTS[c503c0f57d][]" type="checkbox" value="0f8a0ed3bd"> <span>Group 1</span>

In this case, the part between the brackets is your interest category ID, “c503c0f57d”. Your CF7 mark-up should then read like this (in HTML, not sure about the CF7 code but I’m sure you do):

<input name="mc4wp-INTERESTS[interest-category-id][]" type="checkbox" value="Interest Group Name"> <span>My checkbox text</span>

**(the “My checkbox text” can be the same value as “Interest Group Name” if you like – which was what I needed.)

** In your MAIL form (Mail tab) on CF7, you then insert [mc4wp-INTERESTS] wherever you want this information to display.

Hope that helps. Sorry for this being somewhat hard, we’re going to show the interest category ID in the table overview on the MailChimp for WP > MailChimp page to make this easier next time.

Same issue as I am having … would love to know an answer.

I too would like to be able to confirm to my subscribers in the same way using the GROUPS, but this doesn’t seem possible.

OK … for anyone out there having the same issues, I shall recap.

I have now fixed the issue of sending data to MC and GROUPS.

The code I used was from mc4wp documentation and examples:
<input name="mc4wp-INTERESTS[mc-id-number][]" type="checkbox" value="mc-group-id"> <span>My checkbox text</span>

However, I can no longer pass this data back to CF7 into the MAIL tab, so that I can confirm my customers’ selections.
Whereas previously using a normal checkbox [mc4wp-SELECTION] and getting “Checkbox Text” returned into the email form, now using [mc4wp-INTERESTS] returns values of the “mc-group-id” and not the “Checkbox Text” which is what I want.
Afterall, telling my customer they have registered for “37f90b8c” doesn’t really mean anything.

Is there some way to return the “Checkbox Text” to the [mc4wp-INTERESTS] field in teh MAIL tab for any GROUP/s that the customer select/s ?

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by skoochgroup.

OK Lap,

Thanks for the direction in where to look. There were a couple if things that I changed (eg PHONE to TEXT to get the right formatting, since we are not all American, and changed the SELECTION to RADIO).

Now it works.

BUT – I still have the issue of trying to send the data from the RADIO buttons, which I would prefer to be cHECKBOX so that they are not exclusive, into my MC list.

Any ideas on how to achieve this?

I thought maybe setting up separate checkbox fields in the form (painful & tedious) or using GROUPS in MC.

If this is the case, and since I see no CHECKBOX field options in MC, if I have a checkbox in my CF7 form, how can I transfer this information across to MC ?