generic form for Seblod (joomla 2.5 ) - forms

I'm a developer who has taken over a Joomla website, which was creatied using SEBLOD. The website is a listings website, which has over 300 listings on.
The purpose of the website is to get enquiries through the listsings.
Currently, the queries are attached to a button - which opens your email program and sends the email. This is not ideal.
Is there a way to create and attach a generic enquiry box or form to each listing, and include the name of the listing in this form when its sent?
Is there a way to create a form that can be attached on the frontend of the website page intead of
the "Request a quote" button.

To be candid, seblod is an impressive Joomla app, but I'm afraid you might not be able to get useful answers than on their forum, I've been using it now for over a year and I'm just coming to terms with some of its functionality. Visit the forums and you should be able to find a good answer from the devs there. Its an expansive suite so it might give some unique challenges.

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NetSuite: Online Customer Form

I'm looking to create an Online Customer Form that won't create a lead in NetSuite nor update an existing customer record. Specifically, I want to be sent an email through a form without having to use a third-party. If NetSuite supported PHP, I could program the email script myself.
I'm looking to create a "website review form" via Online Customer Form.
NetSuite support hasn't been helpful in giving me an AnswerID to find and read through; they sent me the usual scripted response for anyone who's asking a question.
I hope that I am clarifying this as much as possible; they don't seem to understand me in the NetSuite forums in what I am trying to accomplish.
I need to create certain fields so that I can get the necessary information:
review headline
Rating
Comments (this is a default field)
Pros
Cons
Recommend?
nickname
location
email (this is a default field)
When viewing the "set up workflow" subtab, would I uncheck "Allow update", "Allow update on customer record" and "allow update on contact record"?
If yes, great! then all I need to do is figure out how to add the additional fields.
The Online Forms functionality is specifically for automatically creating and updating records in your account. If you don't want this to happen, you'll need a different solution instead of an Online Form.
If you are familiar with SuiteScript, you can build and publish your own form using an "External Suitelet."
If support and the forums aren't helping you out enough, check out the free NetSuite Professionals Slack group.

Adwords and Form Tracking

Im not an expert in Google Tracking and Adwords and i had a request where a client wants to track the people who submit a contact form on a website, coming from an adwords ad.
So someone lands on a specific site on the clients site via Adwords, then fills out the contact form on that site. Now they want to know how many people coming from adwords ads, are willing to submit the form.
This seems to be very obvious, and i thought there might be already a solution for this.
Conversion Tracking already happens when the form is submitted, but they cannot comprehend whether someone submitted the form coming from adwords or or not.
I´ve been told to save the GET-Parameter from the Adwords-Link inside the database, the website is running on, every time the form is submitted. That doesnt seem to be the right way. Also there are some security issues with that.
Can anyone give some advice, how this could be achieved.
I hope i explained that right.
Thanks in advance.
If you need to save source into DB:
Simpliest way migth be parsing UTM parameters and populate the hidden fields in the form, so you know that user came from AdWords or any other source.
If you are using automatic tagging (which I would recommend), you are going after GLCID parameter, if manual, it's just utm_source.
I would do tracking from all sources (not only AdWords) - it might happen that you also need to know if user came through Facebook, LinkedIn article or so.
More on tracking sources into database here and here. More on AdWords tagging here.
If you only need to know if people from AdWords submit forms (=converts):
Chances are, that you already know. See Google Analytics. Filter out segment of people who did goal of sumbmiting form and see Aquisition -> All traffic.
More on Google Analytics here
You should check and make sure you have auto-tagging enabled. The best way to do this in Google Analytics go into the Admin > Property column > Product Linking section > Adwords Linking.
Once you have Adwords and Analytics linked up simply go back to the Reporting tab and navigate to Acquisition > Adwords > Campaigns as shown here
If you have properly set up your goals in Analytics you can use the Conversion filter to select the goal you want to view and this will show you all goal conversions that came from Adwords.

How does gmail show "action" without email markup present?

This is the email I received from flipkart - https://gist.github.com/syst3mw0rm/b5fe25633aed78865a0b
When I check the above email using markup tester - https://www.google.com/webmasters/markup-tester
it says, it has no structured data. i.e, it has no email markup in it. How does gmail show "View Order" action then?
Here's the screenshot showing it - https://www.evernote.com/l/ANzpEoWx0gpOOIdRXSupqzqmiWlr0gS7RHc
This is an integration from Gmail that is placed in the email. See this link for how to do it: https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/reference/order
This data is usually read at the server level and is not displayed in the source shown in the email received. So looking through that you would not see the markup, etc that called this button.
Here is a link for other available actions that can be done in gmail - https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/reference/go-to-action
Also found this great answer as well: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/47674/new-view-order-button-in-google-mail
It's based on a initiative called Schema.org. Google announced this
feature for Gmail in May 2013:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.dk/2013/05/take-action-right-from-inbox.html
Quotes from the post (emphasis and linkifying mine):
Email is an important part of how we get things done -- from planning
an event with friends to organizing that family vacation to Costa
Rica. And today, getting those things done is getting a little easier
with new quick action buttons in Gmail, designed to help you tackle
your digital to-do’s as quickly as possible. ... and ...
These buttons appear next to certain types of messages in your inbox
and let you take action on an email without ever having to open it.
For example, you can RSVP to your friend's party invitation or rate
that restaurant you went to last night all right from the inbox.
You’ll be checking things off that to-do list in no time. ... and ...
If you are a developer and want to add actions to your emails, check
out http://developers.google.com/gmail/schemas to learn more.

Need eJunkie to Return To My Site After eBook Purchase

I sell ebooks via eJunkie and payment is collected with PayPal; website is with Weebly. I paste the 'add to cart' button on my website and when people buy my product they are directed to a FatFreeCart page:
eJunkie, on it's page, says "Product-specific Redirection cannot be combined with File Downloads for the same product, as they are mutually-exclusive types of digital-product delivery" so I will need some sort of a secure work around. A few ideas are posted on the above link.
Could anyone describe in simple terms what the solution would look like.
If you just want your standard E-junkie-generated thank-you/download page to include a link back to your site, you can add the HTML for that link in your E-junkie Seller Admin > Account Preferences > Common Thank-you Page HTML -- whatever you put in there will be added to every thank-you page we generate for you. E.g., the link HTML you'd add would look like this:
<a href="http://www.example.com/>Return to PPE Products</a>
If you'd rather just redirect buyers back to your site after checkout, then rather than using product-specific Redirection (which cannot be used with Single File Download products), you can redirect all your orders to a Common Thank-you Page URL on your site regardless of the item(s) ordered; you can enter this URL in the Account Preferences screen of your E-junkie Seller Admin. In this case, you should also remove the [%thankyou_link%] template tag from your Common Thank-you Email message template (also in Account Preferences), or just delete that entire template to disable this message.
Bear in mind this means your buyers will be unable to claim their download immediately following checkout for "instant gratification", because you'd be bypassing your standard E-junkie-generated thank-you page where we provide the download link; instead, buyers would need to wait to receive a product-specific thank-you email message for each item they purchase, providing a link to their download page for that item.
BTW, we don't routinely monitor third-party support sites like StackOverflow, so it's lucky our PR staff happened across your post here. For a prompt response from E-junkie support in the future, please use the Contact link on our site to email us, or post to our site's Community forum.

Wordpress - send post to admin email when posting?

I have a niche website that needs to allow users to post events and other things to the website. Wordpress works perfectly for this option (as well as other needs). The problem is, there is also a weekly newsletter (published as a PDF file) that gets sent to a large opt-in email list. Is there any way to configure Wordpress (via plugin or hack) to send the CONTENTS of the post to the admin in a csv or rtf file of some sort? The posts themselves will have several custom fields. Most of the stuff I churn up when I search for "post to email" for Wordpress is the other way around, for people wanting to send an email and have that post to their site, which is not what I want to do. I suppose other ideas of getting around my problem are open to consideration too. Thanks!!
One way I am thinking you could accomplish this but haven't tested it. You could make a php script to parse the rss feed and email that contents. Depending on whether how many posts get done in a week, you could either create a function for it to fire after the post is posted; or have a cron job on it and send it once a week before the newsletter is to be sent. Sorry I'm not in front of my machine that has WP installed to test it out.