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I am currently experiencing the following issue in my environment, however cannot reproduce on sandbox/demo because they are not set up for outbound email.

Consider an event that is full and is waitlist enabled.  When an administrator wants to add someone to the wait list (using civicrm/participant/add) they can select the status of "On waitlist".  If you select the option to send a confirmation email, the email looks like the standard event confirmation email and makes no mention of the waitlisted status (as compared to the same user registering themselves for the waitlist online, they properly get an email indicating they are on the waitlist).

Can anyone else reproduce this?

Further, regardless of whether or not someone can reproduce, I am trying to decipher where in the code (in CRM/Event/Form/Participant.php ?) this is happening but haven't made much progress.

Any insight is appreciated.

I'm not sure this is quite the place - am I wrong in thinking that this method is only executed when the existing participant record is updated (as opposed to a fresh create with the status = "On waitlist")?

From what I can see, the $isOnWaitlist variable does not get assigned for use by the message template.  I tried force injecting this value to true in the transitionParticipants method with no effect.

After doing some more digging it appears to be an issue in the CRM/Event/Form/Participant.php postProcess() function.  This function also generates an email based on the offline event registration message template and does not assign the variable $isOnWaitlist. 

I found that if I add the following lines to the CRM/Event/Form/Participant.php postProcess() function just before the email is sent (approx line 1523) I get the desired effect:

$waitlistStatusId = array_search( 'On waitlist',CRM_Event_PseudoConstant::participantStatus() );
$this->assign( 'isOnWaitlist', $params['status_id'] == $waitlistStatusId);

Should this be considered a bug?  Am I still missing something?

zutroyquixote :
I have filed http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-8060 for the same.

-Yashodha