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Using mail merge tokens for other than primary addresses
November 14, 2011, 01:33:02 pm
We collect voting state and post code data for our contacts and wish to be able to refer to those values in CiviMail. If we use the mail merge tokens, we don't seem to be able to do that, for example {contact.postal_code} returns the postal code for the primary address.

Our address type is "voting" so we would like to be able to use {voting.postal_code} but that does not work, of course.

Any workarounds?

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Re: Using mail merge tokens for other than primary addresses
November 14, 2011, 08:55:13 pm
Hi,

Not sure you can do that out of the box. You could create custom token (using hooks).

At one point, we discussed being able to provide param to the token (eg. give the location type ''voting"). Not sure if it's been implemented at the end.

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Re: Using mail merge tokens for other than primary addresses
November 15, 2011, 07:03:16 am

For now the easiest alternative is to implement the token hook

there has been discussions about adding "parameter" support to tokens, but so far no one has worked on it and/or funded it. I suspect it will be in discussion mode for some more time :(

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Re: Using mail merge tokens for other than primary addresses
November 15, 2011, 12:48:28 pm
From what I have read, token hook wasn't added until 2.2, so may I assume this is not an option for 1.9?

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Re: Using mail merge tokens for other than primary addresses
November 15, 2011, 01:40:10 pm

yes. that is a logical assumption :)

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Re: Using mail merge tokens for other than primary addresses
February 17, 2012, 11:32:51 am
Was any work done on this for 4.1? We are probably going to jump from 1.9 to 4.1 in the "near future".

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Re: Using mail merge tokens for other than primary addresses
February 17, 2012, 11:39:20 am

No. You'll need to use the token hook for this

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