Universal Email attached to Data Assist Detail Page

I would like to put a Universal Email form at the bottom of my Detail page of Data Assist. I try inserting the form with form building and I get a message that code will be deleted. I tried placing the form all the way at the end of the editable area of the Detail page in a Div. I want to take the email from the detail record and place it in the recipient field of the email form. I could create a separate email page, but then I loose the information from my detail record. Can you tell me how to do this? Thanks.

Do you need a form to set the values for the email? If you would just like UE to run on the page and use the values from the recordset there is not need to have a form for it. You can have a simple form that just has a submit button if you would like it to trigger on the button being pressed.

You could also add the form to a new page and just have a recordset like the one on your details page that is filtered by the record id to get at the values. You could even add the form to this other page and specify the details page as the action. Then once the form is created you can just copy it into your details page where you would like to see it.

Eric,

Thanks for your comments. They are very useful. Here are my responses to your question and comments.

"Do you need a form to set the values for the email?" Yes, I need a form for a user message, but I also want the email address that is contained in the Detail record, so that my user can send a message to him/her.

"You could also add the form to a new page and just have a recordset like the one on your details page that is filtered by the record id to get at the values." The question for me is how to do this. I need the email address from this one detail record, which as been selected by the user.

I have attached my attempt in the zip file, where I have created a new page, inserted Form Builder, Universal Email, created a new record set (which contains the email address), and selected UserID as the dynamic recipient, and then copied this page into my Detail page. Unfortunately, this does not go far enough. I do not know how to pass the user ID selected in the the Detail record to the behaviors in the new UA page.

I am able to successfully send an email with this new form from the Detail page, but it is sent to email address of the first record in my record set, apparently because I have not passed the Detail UserID in a query.

Thanks for your help.

Eric,

I might also say that what I am trying to do with Universal Mail here is a relatively common need on the internet. For example, and rental website would require this functionality, as well as many other situations where the database exists so that people can contact each other for various reasons. Thanks.

There is a really cool feature of DW that allows you to copy a recordset from one page to another. You can select the recordset on your detail page within the server behaviors area and copy it with Ctrl+C or Cmd+C if you are on a pc or mac. You can then open up the new page with the form on it and paste in this recordset into the server behaviors area.

This will duplicate the server behavior, you can then just link to this page with the same identifier that you use on the details page like this:

<a href="DetailEmail.php?UserID=<?php echo (isset($_GET['UserID']))?$_GET['UserID']:'' ?>">link to email page</a>