Use Contact Group’s List of Contact Emails for Notification

Jacob Reyes asked on June 5, 2018 00:18

Greetings,

Is it possible to create a macro expression that gets the list of contact emails from a specific Contact Group? Then use that list of emails for the Recipient field in the Email Notification in an online form?

An example would be a contact group called, “GreatLakeBusinesses,” that has a few contacts. I’d like to take those contact emails and use them as part of the notification.

So far the GlobalObjects.Contacts shows me a list of contacts, which allows me to get just one email from a contact, but not the list I’d like. I tried GlobalObjects.ContactGroups.GreatLakeBusinesses, but that doesn’t appear to be the right way to go.

Any advice in the right direction would be appreciated.

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Peter Mogilnitski answered on June 5, 2018 03:45

Yes it is possible, GlobalObjects.ContactGroups is just enumeration to give you info about existing groups on your site. You have to filter contacts: {%GlobalObjects.Contacts.Filter(ContactGroups.Exists(CodeName == "ContactGroupCodeName"))|(identity)GlobalAdministrator%}

Macros sometimes get tricky, but you can use system -> Macro -> Console and take a look as well at On-line marketing macros

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Jacob Reyes answered on June 5, 2018 17:12

Hi Peter Mogilnitski,

Now that I can see the properties being used in your expression, it makes a little more sense to me. The filter property was exactly the right way to go.

P.S. I've been using the Macro Console a lot more, but my JS background to K# feels like a steep learning curve.

Thank you again for the advice.

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Peter Mogilnitski answered on June 6, 2018 14:15 (last edited on June 6, 2018 14:17)

It will take some times to master macros :)

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