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rchapman

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Sending ID of a registration as confirmation number
October 18, 2010, 05:54:56 am
Hello,

  We're hoping to use civiEvent as a method of tracking gift certificates. So in registering for an event, the customer effectively purchases a gift certificate.

  The issue now is that we want to send the ID of the registration as the confirmation number TO the registrant, but I can't find a quick way to do that. I was trying to include the id in some curly braces, but that didn't work within the confirmation box.

  I've seen one or two solutions to embed the ID in the confirmation text of ALL events, but we'd like to only send the confirmation number (formatted nicely) from one event registration.

  Any ideas?

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Re: Sending ID of a registration as confirmation number
October 21, 2010, 02:28:45 pm
You could us the patch from here to get the participant ID into the set of available tokens.

If you want to add that token to the email messages selectively you would have to create a module that would use a custom table to store the event id and a flag indicating whether or not to include the participant id. You would also need wrap the line added from the above patch in a conditional that returns an empty string if the flag in your custom db was set to false. As part of your module you would want to customize the tpl file for the event form to include a checkbox for the Include Participant ID in Confirmation Email flag and handle your custom field on form submission.

It would require some work, but I don't think it is impossible.
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rchapman

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Re: Sending ID of a registration as confirmation number
October 26, 2010, 10:06:05 am
Thanks, Q.

I had applied the patch, having found that thread before, but I was hoping there was a better way of implementing my need without adding a "if event_id = 57" type of clause. It feels a bit slap-dash, but I guess beggars can't be choosers. :)

thanks again.

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Re: Sending ID of a registration as confirmation number
November 02, 2010, 10:33:55 am
the plot thickens.

i'm able to add to the tplparams array the value participantID, but I can't show that in the message templates. It comes up blank. Is there another piece of the puzzle? I've enabled the tplParams to send the participantID, but I'm not seeing it on the other end.


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