Hey Folks,
Version 2.5 of TNEW introduced a Short Reg Email field for email signups. I know it grabs a bunch of default settings to create full constituent profiles, by my question is how?
i'm looking for a quick, easy, repeatable process for importing a list of email addresses, as "short reg" constituents.
Ideally, i could loop a procedure on a table and declare the input variable as the email address and the proc would do the rest.
I know there is the "Constituent Import Utility." But then i need to set up all sorts of my own default data. Anyone have any thoughts?
James
Hi James,
TNEW uses entries in the T_DEFAULTS table to populate the required postal address fields. I believe that any website can use those default settings; they are built into the standard API methods you use to create accounts. I imagine that your procedure could reference the same defaults if you wanted. I’m not really a coder though, so it might be just as easy or easier to build those values directly into your code.
Kevin Sheehan
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Thanks Kevin,
Easier, maybe, but a better practice to use the same reference to t_defaults, for future changes and all. I intent to go down this road and give it a try. for reference i got a similar, but slightly more detailed response from Heather at TNEW:
"The Short Registration feature of TNEW just uses the good-ol ‘Register’ API method – which relies on WP_MAINTAIN_CONSTITUENT to create the customer record (and a handful of other sprocs to create a web session and associated the user to it). No special stored procedures are part of this type of account creation."
If i get through this with any success, i'll be sure to post back soon.
Thanks!
I knew it wasn't all in t_defaults;
FYI, TNEW users; The sproc also grabs some data from LTR_TN_EXPRESS_WEB_CONTENT
Primarily fname and lname defaults, which are required values...more from me later.
JB