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MacRonin

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Using Authorize.net and description field is empty in emailed receipt(in test)
November 13, 2007, 02:43:04 pm
Hello all,

I have been configuring and testing CiviCRM (esp CiviEvent & CiviContribute) for a bit and have everything pretty much in place. The version I have installed is civicrm-1.8.11536-drupal-php4 (1.9 will come after I upgrade my server to php5, I want CiviMail) Pretty much everything looks good with one small exception.

I've been doing everything so far as tests and have not done any live CC charges yet, so its possible a real transaction would give a different result. I take an event I created out for a test drive and use the dummy MasterCard number to make validation happy. I get all the way thru the transaction and I get my receipt(both Authorize.net & CiviCRM), but there is one small problem. In the email from Authorize.net the description field is Blank. I had assumed that it would be filled in with the name of the event. That is what I did when I used their SIM interface and had the data collection happen on their website.

I took a look in the code for the Authorize.net processing module and can only find the description field explicitly being mentioned/copied once, and that was part of the recurring transaction processing

 [ doRecurPayment -         $template->assign( 'description', $session->get( 'title' ) ); ]

I'm wondering if this blank description field is by design, an error/bug or maybe I missed a configuration option someplace. I also have a vague memory of the description being mentioned a while back in relation to  Authorize.net but I searched the issues and can't find it.

So any information on where to look next would be appreciated.
« Last Edit: November 13, 2007, 03:23:27 pm by MacRonin »

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Re: Using Authorize.net and description field is empty in emailed receipt(in te
November 13, 2007, 03:22:03 pm
Well after making this post I thought I'd go back thru the other posts in the CiviEvent section and see what knowledge I could absorb. It looks like I might have found that previous mention of the Description field being blank in the conf email for authorize.net. http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,907.0.html The post is from back in August and is mentioned as having an issue filed for this in the 2.x series. I'll have to try and find the issue(in the 2.x queue), see if any work has been done on it, and see if that might help me hack my way around this.
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Re: Using Authorize.net and description field is emplty in emailed receipt(in te
November 13, 2007, 03:24:20 pm
This has been fixed in trunk (v2.0), http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-2055

also check:

http://fisheye.civicrm.org/changelog/CiviCRM?cs=11199

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Re: Using Authorize.net and description field is empty in emailed receipt(in tes
November 13, 2007, 03:49:21 pm
Thanks for the pointers. I'll check them out and see if it gives me any ideas on how I can do it in 1.8

I may not be a php expert, but I can hack my way thru all sorts of stuff  :)

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Re: Using Authorize.net and description field is empty in emailed receipt(in tes
November 27, 2007, 09:37:45 am
Just a link to some notes by the developer of the authorize.net gateway. I don't want to forget where they are. And they should come in handy when I get a chance to do this.

http://www.idealso.com/civicrm/AUTHORIZENET_NOTES

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Re: Using Authorize.net and description field is empty in emailed receipt(in tes
January 31, 2008, 06:59:14 pm
Did you ever figure this out?  I'm trying to do it for 1.9
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