Again, for anyone playing along at home, the issue of being able to pass the GROUP data back to the MAIL form in CF7 was finally solved by DANNY at mc4wp.
The challenge I faced was twofold – when completing my form I wanted subscribers to select an Interest (GROUP) that would then be passed through to MC and the subscriber added to that GROUP.
Secondly, I wanted that choice to be sent back to the MAIL form in CF7, so in my autoresponse (MAIL 2) I could confirm their selection to them.
Danny’s response (which works brilliantly) is:
This is possible but for this to work, the plugin needs your interest category ID. It can then use the textual group name + the category to determine the actual interest group ID before sending the value off to MailChimp. You can find this interest category ID by going to the form editor in our plugin and then add the interest grouping to your form. You should see HTML that looks a bit like this.
<input name="INTERESTS[c503c0f57d][]" type="checkbox" value="0f8a0ed3bd"> <span>Group 1</span>
In this case, the part between the brackets is your interest category ID, “c503c0f57d”. Your CF7 mark-up should then read like this (in HTML, not sure about the CF7 code but I’m sure you do):
<input name="mc4wp-INTERESTS[interest-category-id][]" type="checkbox" value="Interest Group Name"> <span>My checkbox text</span>
**(the “My checkbox text” can be the same value as “Interest Group Name” if you like – which was what I needed.)
** In your MAIL tab on CF7, you then insert [mc4wp-INTERESTS] wherever you want this information to display.
