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Hi,

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but is there any possibility of adding an attachment to a message template, namely the membership confirmation as the client would like to send a pdf handbook along with the email.

If this is not standard, how do I go about building this?  I could probably use custom data to get the attachment on to the membership but not sure what hook to use to get the attachment on to the email.

Thanks.

If Lobo's suggestion doesn't work for you - another approach would be to just put the PDF handbook up on their server somewhere and add a URL to it in the message template (KISS principle) :-)

Lobo, a question for you...  The attachment will be based on the event that the contact is participating in, and you can do a custom data for the event which covers this.  I can get the contact in the hook_civicrm_alterMailParams and you can tell it's a workflow message and which template it is using from the params.  I can get the most recent record from the civicrm_participant table and the event from that, but I was wondering if there was a more robust way of making sure that I have the right event and therefore the right attachment.  The only problem with that is the most "recent" isn't a timestamp but an entered field (Registration Date, which can be changed).  I tried looking into hook_civicrm_postProcess to maybe add something to the mail parameters, but this is getting called after hook_civicrm_alterMailParams so doesn't do me any good.

I suspect the answer is no, without changing core, but just thought I'd check before assuming.