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Hello, everyone. When an online membership signup occurs, the user has an option to pay later.

The HTML contained in the 'Memberships - Receipt (on-line)' template is used to create the outgoing email, and create the pdf attachment.

http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/admin/messageTemplates/add?action=update&id=31&reset=1

The way it works is that if the person selected pay later, then this becomes an invoice. Otherwise it is a receipt because they have paid on-line.

It's the same template, with logic that knows whether $is_pay_later is set, or not.

My question is about re-generating an invoice at a later date.

CiviCRM seems to allow us to re-generate a receipt at a later date, but not an invoice.

If we go to Contributions > Find Contributions and do a search ...

... we find some with status 'Completed' (these are online payments that have a receipt)

... and we find some with status 'Pending (Pay Later)' (these are for people who chose pay later and have received an invoice)

If we check one with status 'Completed' we are able to select 'Print or Email Contribution Receipts' to re-generate the pdf.

However, if we check one with status 'Pending (Pay Later)' we can't regenerate the pdf.

We get the error: 'Please select only online contributions with Completed status'.

I'm wondering ... since the same template is used to create both invoices and receipts, how is it that we can only regenerate the receipts. My client would like to regenerate invoices, too.

How can we work around this and allow the recreation of invoice pdf documents.

Thanks for any help.

Michael

just tying this to other posts that i think are related.
This is the most useful i think http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,21371.msg89579.html#msg89579
But also http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,20622.msg86231.html#msg86231 and
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,13041.msg56825