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IvanWeiss's avatar
IvanWeiss
Qrew Captain
5 years ago

Sending a Notification to a Dynamic List of Users

I have a master table "Projects" and a child table "Discussion Board" which includes fields for a title, description, status (open/closed), and due date.  I am going to create another child table for Discussion Board titled comments.

The intent is that someone can post a topic in the discussion board about a project so that the project team gets an alert.  We can continue to leave it open until everything is resolved by our team and it is marked closed.

Everytime a comment is posted or a new discussion board is created I want to alert the entire project team.  This could be 2 people, this could be 7 people and it changes for each project.

The parent Projects Table already has a field for "Internal Email List" which is taking the users assigned to the project and combining via a text field with the email addresses.  But I cannot reference that in the child record....  My thought was to use an automation to copy that over to a field in the child table...  But I cannot use that in the built in notification system.

So I am a bit stumped on how to do this....

3 Replies

  • The users on the Project team should be combined into a listuser field type by formula.

    I believe the syntax is

    ToUserList(
    [Project team member 1 userid],
    [Project team member 2 userid],
    [Project team member 3 userid],
    [Project team member 4 userid])

    Then just look that up down to the child table and use it in an email notification.
    • SanjayGupta's avatar
      SanjayGupta
      Qrew Member
      Hi, I am having a requirement where i need to send notifications to list of users based on country.
      Can we assign a field in "Notify whom" section so that every time field is populated with dynamic users list.
      i am not able to insert field in "Notify whom" like in Email subject, Body. Can you pls suggest how to proceed further.
      Thanks

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      • MarkShnier__You's avatar
        MarkShnier__You
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        Should be easy.

        If the recipients are users, create a regular Notification called "Recipient" type, else if not user, then create of type "Open"

        Carefully type the individual fields which hold single email address into the box of recipients.

        the format is like

        [email 1]
        [email 2]


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