Hi, I have used openinviter in the past and this module seems to provide a better integration with Drupal, however once Installed I am not sure how to make this thing work.

I was hoping to have a block or something but it seems I have to create a form, with some unknown fields and unknown action (at least for me).

It would be great to have an example or two of what to do next, I mean samples for someone that just know html and drupal configuration.

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Contact Importer does nothing on its own. You need to already have a form that has a field where a user would normally type in some email addresses. Be it a send-to-a-friend form, a user import form, or whatever.

You can then use the Contact Importer Forms Integration module to connect Contact Importer to that form.

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pitxels commented

How difficult could be to provide an example?

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Contact Importer just helps you import email addresses from your Hotmail (or whatever) account into a form field on some Drupal form. Do you have a form where you type in a list of email addresses? If not then Contact Importer won't help you.

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Just to be more clear. You need some other module to create that form.

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pitxels commented

Yes, I figured out struggling after a few hours, I will post my case as an example, the module is great by the way. thanks.

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Yorgg commented

Will you write a handbook or post here? I am looking forward to view an example.

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Title: Installed correctly, now what? » Create handbook page for Contact Importer
Version: 6.x-2.3 » 7.x-1.x-dev
Category: support » task
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Closed (works as designed) » Active
Issue tags: +Novice

@jusspitti I wouldn't be a good candidate to write such a handbook page since I don't know where the pain points are because I wrote it. Actually you would be the ideal person to write such a handbook page because you know what the hard parts are. Take a look at this article:

https://www.lullabot.com/articles/drupal-best-practice-document-your-way...

If you start a handbook page we (the co-maintainers of Contact Importer) would be more than happy to help you out.

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liza commented

when you say *ANY FORM* do you mean something like ADDRESSES (cck)
http://drupal.org/project/addresses

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Yup, it really means *ANY* Drupal form:

http://drupalcode.org/project/contact_importer.git/blob/refs/heads/7.x-1...

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pitxels commented

Sorry for not getting back on this issue.

Basically I used the invitation module, that contains a textarea for adding emails separated by comas.

So what I did was:

1. Installed invite module and enable the provided block in the page I wanted.
2. Checked the html source for the form id (invite_form) and the text area field name (email)
3. at /admin/settings/contact_importer/forms/list created a form entry with previous info

And that's it, I also have installed modal framework so the functionality is open in a modal window.

So is easy once you know how, otherwise I guess you may be expending some hours trying to figure it out.

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qsurti commented

Can Webform module help in designing the form and how?

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Closing : Works as designed