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"Print PDF Document" to generate one file per contact?
October 18, 2013, 02:43:02 pm
We are a school, and we need to send our students' midterm reports to their parents. In the past, we have sent the reports by mail, using "Print PDF Document" from an advanced search to generate them. Now, we want to email the reports to the parents as attached PDFs. Ideally, we would love to do this from within CiviCRM, but given our short timeframe and the complexities involved (the midterm reports are attached to the students' records, not the parents', etc.), we are going to manually send emails to each set of parents.

The question: "Print PDF Document" generates one single file that contains multiple letters (midterm reports, in this case). Is there a way to generate each PDF separately, so that we can easily attach them to our emails?

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Re: "Print PDF Document" to generate one file per contact?
October 20, 2013, 08:34:09 am

for my kids school, i basically exposed the PDF report cards as a downloadable entity. This avoids sending it as an attachment. Parents have access to the school website via a login etc

You should be able to generate a pdf document for each student, but a small snippet of php and iterating through the pdf library code for each student (to get a different file)

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Re: "Print PDF Document" to generate one file per contact?
October 20, 2013, 11:14:49 am
Hmm... I wonder if you could send out the email to the students but cc the parents.
When Civi sends a cc - whose tokens does it use? The cc'd contact or the original contact?
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Re: "Print PDF Document" to generate one file per contact?
October 20, 2013, 04:59:44 pm
I would be interested to hear how this goes. 

Last year I was looking for a 'no-coding' solution for downloadable personalised attendance certificates and was experimenting with https://drupal.org/project/webform2pdf but then priorities changed.
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