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Hi,

Just a note to say that I am REALLY enjoying the action buttons in 3.2 - they really do make navigation a LOT easier.

A minor one I would add is 'send pdf letter' to the contact summary (currently only available off contact search) and a less minor thing that would be really useful is the ability to add your own templated ones to the options - e.g. if you had a bunch of std mail or e-mail templates if you could configure some of them to appear on that tab you could possibly do one-click std e-mails.

Not that I think either of these are on anyone's priority lists - just in the ideas bin.

Eileen

Just looking at this I can see that the tasks for contact summary are in CRM_Contact_BAO_Contact.php (line 2291) & the main difference between those ones & the ones in CRM_Contact_Task (line 135) is that the tasks called from the search are 'POSTS' with Contact Ids passed as values and the ones on the contact summary seem to be GETs - does that make it harder to add this as an action here?

It certainly doesn't seem like a copy & paste to add this in

                                  19    => array( 'title'  => ts( 'Print PDF Letter for Contacts' ),
                                                  'class'  => 'CRM_Contact_Form_Task_PDF',
                                                  'result' => true ),

Hi,

if you do make it available via GET it might be worth allowing the template to be passed in through the URL

That's fabulous Dave.

I'm not quite clear from your post whether it is now part of the standard contact summary or you are telling me how to add it by customisation. I would think it is a generally useful function.

I did look at the sandbox but it wasn't there but  I know the sandbox isn't always up-to-date

OK - I guess the question I have is that it seems really easy to add it to Core at this stage and I think all users would find it useful to be able to write a letter to an individual contact from their contact summary so I'm wondering why you didn't think it was a good idea to put it in core. Is it because the sample code is a template add-in not 'properly' coded in? Or because you don't think it would be good in core.

ie. is this a design decision or just not something you want to use your time on? If the latter I suspect it would be as easy for me to submit a patch as to implement this for half a dozen customers via template customisation

Wow - more popular feature than we had thought :-).

The current plan is to go ahead and add to action button (and Activities dropdown in Activities tab) for 3.2.3.

Thanks, Dave. That's wonderful news.

James

I don't know if it is generally useful or not but there is also a recipe someone put on the Wiki for adding a 'print label' to the actions to print an individual label. Not sure if people like to do that sort of thing because it seems you don't load label paper to print individual labels