We have a unique scenario where one of our office clericals enters in requests for other Staff in the district. The issue is that she wants the Staff member to receive an email notification when the event is created.

Since the office clerical is the event owner, the Staff member would not receive an email notification when the event is created. Normally we would just tell her to change the event owner to a Staff member, however this would cause an issue with our rules. We currently have a rule where if the event owner is the office clerical, then the event is automatically Approved without going through our usual approval workflow.

So if the office clerical changes the event owner to the Staff member, then the event wouldn’t be auto approved. We had hoped that creating a custom field of type “IIQ User” and adding it to the Event form would solve this, however the rules engine doesn’t appear to be able to grab the user that the person selects.

I’ve been searching the Community to see if this is even possible, but I haven’t been able to find anything. Does anyone have any suggestions or workarounds for this? Thanks!