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I'm a newbie, but It appears that the URL syntax shown in the "More On Checksum Tokens" section of wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC41/Mail-merge+Tokens+for+Contact+Data is incorrect (sorry, this forum will not allow me to post it as a link).

There are 6 examples provided having the form of
myorganization.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=*N*&\{contact.checksum\}&cid=\{contact.contact_id\}

There are three different issues with these URL's:

• I believe that "\{contact.checksum\}" must be preceded by "cs=". I say this because I found that without the "cs=", the form is not pre-populated based on the cid. I found the cs field name in sites\all\modules\civicrm\CRM\Event\Form\Registration.php, and when I changed the URL to include the "cs=" the form was displayed properly pre-populated.
• I don't know why the { and } are shown escaped with \. I created the links in my email without them and it worked as expected. Perhaps this was a failed attempt by the author to properly display the brackets in the HTML documentation.
• I don't know why each URL is shown two times. Perhaps this was also an HTML coding error in the documentation.