Tokens for Civi Contribute custom fields

[kestermuller]

Hi all,

We're trying to use a custom field that is created against the individual donation as a way of inserting custom text into a contribution thank you letter. I tried to create the token and it's drawing a blank. I figured it would be called "{contribution.custom_178}" as 178 is the ID of the custom field, but that's not working. We've done word replacement to change 'Contribution' to 'Donation', but this shouldn't affect the custom field nomenclature.

What obvious thing am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
K

[CiviTeacher.com]

Any contribution custom fields are not available (yet) in Civi as tokens that I am aware of.

This blog addresses the custom programming required for this:
https://civicrm.org/blogs/colemanw/create-your-own-tokens-fun-and-profit

[kestermuller]

Hi there! Thanks so much for your advice. What a shame though, hey? It would be really nice if all custom fields were accessible automatically as tokens, because of course what's the point in creating the custom data if you can't put it to use? 

Will look into making my own!

Thanks again, Kester

[flo81]

Hi,

Did you manage to add contributions custom fields as tokens available in "send letters" action ? I'm trying to achieve this, but I'm stuck in hook_civicrm_tokenValues, where it seems I can't get contributions ids (only contacts ids). My logic would be to add my custom field value as a token for all contributions by making a DB request.

Thanks