Why won't this work.

[Scott Rossi]

Try: set the text of tlongid to "my email"

Otherwise, you're just putting a value into your tlongid variable, the same way you did with the long id of the field.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design

> On Oct 29, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Earthednet-wp <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I tried
>     Put the long id of field "email" into tlongid
>     Put "my email" into tlongid
> 
> This does not work.
> 
> It works if I copy the long id and paste the second line in the message box.
> Seems this should work.
> 
> Bill
> 
> William Prothero
> http://es.earthednet.org
> 
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