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Lessons from creating a new custom name badge
July 18, 2011, 11:51:45 pm
Hi,

Just a couple of observations that I didn't find documented or that documentation wasn't clear on (to me) that might save someone some time if creating a custom name badge.

1.  If using a custom logo, make sure that your editing program doesn't change the bit depth from 24bit as I was finding that the badge process would hang.  If using gimp, this means flattening image rather than merging layers.

2.  If using a custom badge class, then the name of the file that is expected to contain the class is the name of the class minus "CRM_Event_Badge_" e.g. I had the class defined as CRM_Event_Badge_Momentum therefore Civi is expecting Momentum.php in the <custom template path>\CRM\Event\Badge directory.

3.  Similarly, if using a logo Civi is looking for Momentum.png (or .gif/.jpg) in the <custom template path>\templates\CRM\Event\Badge directory.

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Re: Lessons from creating a new custom name badge
July 26, 2011, 12:48:46 pm
Just wanted to note that the custom PHP file that contains the new class needs to be saved in the custom PHP directory, not the custom template directory. I just updated the documentation with this information. Thanks!

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/Name+Badge+Administration%2C+Customization

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Re: Lessons from creating a new custom name badge
May 10, 2013, 02:38:14 pm
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