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Hi All

So we have a requirement to not send scheduled reminders to certain contacts based on some criteria.

I cant see of way of doing this at the moment so was toying with the idea of having a hook that could be used to do this?

The other option is to allow the user to exclude a group of contacts from the scheduled reminder?

Option two (Exclude Group) is probably going to be a little too much work for us to get done for this requirement so we'll probably head down the Hook route but was wondering if anyone thinks it worthwhile contributing back? If so any particular additional functionality this hook might need to do?

Thanks

Parvez

Hi Parvez - did you get any good ideas going down this road? I just finished digging around eying to find a way to alter the list of reminder recipients and, like you, can't find an easy way.

We've got a custom contact reference field on the participant record for one event type (a summer camper), and we'd like to send the reminder to the contact in that field, rather than to the participant contact. So, a hook that fires for each contact lookup - that has the id of the relevant entity (participant, in our case) - would be awesome. Then all we'd have to do is look up the appropriate reference and alter that entry.

Alternatively, some way to alter the query for a custom scheduled reminder would maybe work better? Something analogous to how we can write custom searches/reports now? Lobo, is this possible even now, just not documented anywhere?