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Can you tell me how to use Formidable to achieve the following:

Allow
site visitors to send a particular page, designed as an invitation card
(not all pages) to their friends via email and provide the friend the
opportunity to accept or decline the invitation (using radio button). I also would like to access all
invitations sent out and list of accepted or declined.

Thanks for your time and help.

The part that a user can send an invitation to a friend isn't an issue. Add an email field to your form where the user can enter the email address to send the invitation to. Then select that email address to send the autoresponder message. You can find more information on the autoresponder here:
http://formidablepro.com/knowledgebase/send-an-autoresponse-to-the-form-submitter/

The problem here is the accepting or declining of the invitation. This would require the form to be editable by anyone since the invitee is not a logged-in user or even the creator of the entry. You could create a page with the shortcode [formidable id=x fields=y] where y is the key or ID of the field you have added to that form for accept or decline. (That's the easy part too)

If you don't want the URL to be site.com/link-to-accept-page?action=edit&entry=asldj90 (or something like that), you'd need to integrate with another plugin (like Pretty Link) to generate random URLs that would be sent out in the email message to make it difficult for people to guess the URLs and edit entries that you don't want them to edit. This part would take some work, and a solid knowledge of PHP and WordPress.


Thanks for your help. I am not sure I explained properly what I desire to achieve.

Here's the scenario:
I have a page that contains an invitation card and would like visitors to send the page to some of their friends, something like invite a friend. How may I accomplish the goal?

I am not actually particular about the acceptance or otherwise, of the invitation.

I appreciate your help.

The part that a user can send an invitation to a friend isn't an issue.
Add an email field to your form where the user can enter the email
address to send the invitation to. Then select that email address to
send the autoresponder message. You can find more information on the
autoresponder here:
http://formidablepro.com/knowledgebase/send-an-autoresponse-to-the-form-submitter/

Thanks. I have gone through the link. When I followed the instruction, the email that the friend received did not contain the page content. It only listed my friend's name and email address. What I want is the page content to be email to the friend.
Thanks again for your help.

If you want the page content in the email, you will need to copy and paste it into the email message.

Thanks. I finally got it.

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