We have a small Wix “members only” website for a local club. We have a member directory and each member can keep their contact details up to date.
I would like to give our members the ability to do the following:
(1) Export a copy of the “contact details” for our member directory so they can add it to their personal address books.
(2) Add a “Mail All” button that allows a member to email all members…
(3) Add a “Get Email Addresses” that when clicked displays a text field with each members email address with a semicolon so members can “cut and paste” members emails into their email client of choice.
Is there a way to do the above or a better way for our members to extract email address and send group emails? Thanks!
Are the members stored in a data collection? If they are you could make export function by looping through all records and add the data you want to an array that you then let then export/download. Mail all is the same, look up send grid samples on wix articles and loop through members, create the mail, send it and loop.
Same goes for the emailaddress list, loop through data collection, add the emails to the list and then let them export it.
You might need to send the lists to a html component if you can’t get the export to work in Wix Code so that they will download it through the iframe.
So I ended up creating a form on a members-only page that members could submit and which ran on the Java code that sends an email with the details of the form to an email address. The recipient email address I used is a Google Groups email address that has every member of the group as a member of the email distribution for Google Group, and I restricted posting through the Google Group email address to just the email account I use to send the email per the Java code. Let me know if that helps.
Thanks for the suggestions. I have swamped at work (new job) so have not had a chance to sort this but the above are great starting points. I will report back on what I end up doing. But it may be a couple of weeks. Thanks!
Thx so much. I’ve messed around with the Google Group concept myself and it seems to work for me, but not my tester using a mail icon with a link to the email address and a generic email subject as shown here. I’m not sure if it is a cache issue or something else that causes my tester to not have anything happen when the icon is clicked. The same issue is occurring with a regular button that is linked to the site email address. Once I know this works, I will create a google group with all site members.
However, this means maintenance of individuals members now in 3 places, the contacts database, the members database (since the info displayed on the members page member card is not sufficient) and now a google group for all members to email all other members.
