Send Birthday Greeting to User’s Email with Uncanny Automator

  • Resolved gamicord

    (@gamicord)


    12 months ago

    Hello Sir,
    I have used Ultimate Member plugin to set up a Member Directory, as you can see here– https://member.cordialmarketplace.com/

    There is a field called Date of Birth, which has a metakey of “date_of_birth” in the Database of the User Meta Table.

    What I need to do, is to make UncannyAutomator find this Date of Birth Meta Key from my Users Table, and send a Birthday Greeting to the registered Email address of the user, when it is the user’s birthday.

    Now, this Birthday Greeting should be sent by 6am West African Time on the day of the user’s Birthday, and it should use the built-in Ultimate Member Email Template to send the Greeting.

    1.) is this possible with UncannyAutomator?

    2.) Suppose you are me, who wants to do this kind of thing, How would you set it up step by step?

    Regards.

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  • Plugin Contributor Uncanny Automator

    (@uncannyautomator)

    Hi @gamicord ,

    Thanks for the inquiry. Interestingly, we have had a few questions from other users about birthday automations this week.

    Uncanny Automator unfortunately cannot poll meta fields like this and send emails to users on their birthday. We also can’t use another plugin’s email templates to send outgoing messages.

    When this came up in other tickets, another approach we explored was to use a gamification plugin that can award points or badges on someone’s birthday. MyCred, for example, as a free addon for this. Then, if a gamification plugin we support awards points, a badge or a rank based on the birthday, we could hook into that and run a recipe. There has to be another plugin involved though that could run something on someone’s birthday.

    I hope that helps. Doing this directly in Automator isn’t currently planned, but we will make note of the request. For now we’ll tentatively close the ticket.

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