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  • dtynan

    (@dtynan)

    it works

    Thread Starter srshaw3

    (@srshaw3)

    Thank you.
    If you have the answer to the following, you could save me the trouble of trying and finding out the time costing way….

    Do you know if I can configure the trio of products Email Before Download , Contact Form 7 and WordPress Download Monitor (under WordPress 4.3.1), to do the following?
    Require registration before download is allowed.
    Registration is to include: First name, Last name, Company name,
    Email, Phone number
    Have a notification email is to be sent to the site owner when there is a new registrant so the registrant can be approved for downloading.
    Have a confirmation email is to be sent to the registrant after each file is downloaded
    Have a notification email is to be sent to the site owner when a file has been downloaded

    dtynan

    (@dtynan)

    Not quite all of that. There isn’t any kind of approval step (where the admin approves someone to download). Also, there isn’t really registration as in some sort of account is created. There is a form & you can put whatever fields on it you want & the user has to fill those in & press submit. Then, depending on how you configure it, either a link to download the file appears on the screen (via ajax update), or the user is sent an email with the link in it, or the user is sent an email with the file attached to the email (and optionally a link to download it as well), or you can do both the ajax-update link on the screen & the email to the user with or without a link and/or attachment.

    The advantage of doing an email with a link or an email with an attachment is that the user cannot get the download unless they have provided a working email address (rather than something they just type in there). If you do the ajax-update display link on the screen then you don’t really know if the email address works or not, which can be a problem depending on what you’re doing (for example, mailchimp doesn’t like you to have too many non-working email addresses on your list).

    So, to summarize, there is no real registering of an “account” and there is no admin authorization step, but otherwise it pretty much does what you want. You make a form, the user has to fill it in, the user can optionally get an email about it (with or without link and/or attachment), and the site admin gets a notification email saying what was downloaded & what was typed in the form. That info also goes into the database & there is a log export function to get a csv. I’m not sure about adding extra fields like company .. I don’t know if that will be exported via the export log file function or not .. I think it will, but not sure.

    Thread Starter srshaw3

    (@srshaw3)

    Sounds like it will work out for me. I do appreciate all the information. Thank you very much!

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