Gift Subscription Question

Thank you for your reply Krileon.

On step 4 you mention " turn off direct access". How do i do it?

After saving the auto action there should be parameter below the auto action URL on the global tab to disable direct access. Be sure you've no triggers selected when doing this as should be the case for actions 1 and 2 in my explanation. This allows those actions to only be called via APIs and not via URL.

A few more questions.

Step 4 / third auto action
You mention "it MUST have the same conditions as the cb_gifts field" but cb_gifts field does not have any conditions!
You also say "for Output use a redirect to redirect back to the displayed users profile". How is this done. There is just a text field in redirect output.

Step 5
"In the Custom HTML field you'd just create a button that links to Action 3." How to create this button and what the link will be?

Thank you

Ok... seems that we are getting close to complete the tutorial!

User A buys the gift plan. The cb_gifts field is updated and he can view the link to auto action 3 that will trigger auto actions 1 and 2. He clicks on it, the procedure works, but the gift subscription is added to himself.... not to User B.

Also i do not know what url i have to enter to redirect back to User B profile.

Can you please advise?

Thank you.

You mention "it MUST have the same conditions as the cb_gifts field" but cb_gifts field does not have any conditions!

Sorry, it should have the same conditions as your Custom HTML field.

You also say "for Output use a redirect to redirect back to the displayed users profile". How is this done. There is just a text field in redirect output.

Set the redirect URL to the following and it'll send them back to their profile.

[cb:url location="profile_view" /]

"In the Custom HTML field you'd just create a button that links to Action 3." How to create this button and what the link will be?

Just using plain old HTML. Example as follows.

User A buys the gift plan. The cb_gifts field is updated and he can view the link to auto action 3 that will trigger auto actions 1 and 2. He clicks on it, the procedure works, but the gift subscription is added to himself.... not to User B.

You need to add &users=[user_id] to your action URL so the auto action knows what profile to gift to.

Probably also worth adding a condition to the field and your action to make sure the viewing user and action user are not the same user to prevent that from happening as well. Below should work.

Field: Custom > Value
Custom Value: [cb:userdata field="user_id" user="#me" /]
Operator: Not Equal To
Value: [user_id]

Thank you Krileon.

We got even closer. The issue we have now is that when we add &users=[user_id] to the action URL, the cb_gifts is not reduced.

I remind that cb_gifts is an integer field that contains the number of gifts that can be given away. Each time user A buys a gift subscription, cb_gifts is increased by one.

When &users=[user_id] is absent from the action URL, the subtraction by 1 is successful on gift subscription activation.

When &users=[user_id] is present in the action URL, there is no subtraction on gift subscription activation.

Please advise...

Thank you