Viral Invite For SharePoint

notorioustech — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:55:00 GMT

Viral Invite is when a site give you a form to invite 5 or more friends at once to check the site. This was SOOO easy using SharePoint for this. Here are the steps.

First Create a simple lists with a subject, body and 5 email fields. Grant post only access to your members on this list.

Create a new .aspx page and using the sharepoint designer Insert->SharePoint->Custom List Form to create and customize the submit screen.

Then create a new workflow triggered on add only for the new list.

Then you check each each of the email fields against this regex: ^[a-zA-Z][\w\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]@[a-zA-Z0-9][\w\.-]*[a-zA-Z0-9]\.[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z\.]*[a-zA-Z]$

The action for each test is to append that field to a variable called emails or something like that in the workflow, now there is no append so you need to combine existing variable with the field into variable:

The last workflow step is to send the email.

Really Really Easy.

SharePoint Community Development by Christopher : Viral marketing, WSS

Viral Invite For SharePoint