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For some reason you can't send pdf letters to participants after a search.
I wrote an extension that adds this functionality. Would be nice if people would install it, try it out and give some feedback.

https://github.com/DizzyMissLizzy/be.dizzymisslizzy.pdfletterevents/tree/dev

Thanks!

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Lobo,

I truly understand, that the core team tries to "outcource" code into extensions. In many cases, this speeds up improvements and reduces the testing effort for the core team when new releases are published.

However, this one is a functionality that fits logically into the core of CiviCRM - everybody would expect it there...
Any chance to get this extension into 4.5 ?

Putting it into core, hmm, ok, that's a bit scary. 

I'll give it a try, but i'm getting php warnings in my extensions from core civicrm classes, so it would be nice if someone could give a suggestion how to deal with that before i try to put it into core.

 

Good idea Eileen. Here they are :

• Strict warning: Declaration of CRM_PdfLetterEvents_Form_Task_PDFLetterCommon::postProcess() should be compatible with CRM_Contact_Form_Task_PDFLetterCommon::postProcess(&$form) in CRM_Core_ClassLoader::loadClass() (regel 126 van /var/www/persoonlijk/civi4.4/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/ClassLoader.php).
• Strict warning: Non-static method CRM_Contact_Form_Task_PDFLetterCommon::formatMessage() should not be called statically in CRM_Contact_Form_Task_PDFLetterCommon::formatMessage() (regel 311 van /var/www/persoonlijk/civi4.4/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Contact/Form/Task/PDFLetterCommon.php).
• Strict warning: Non-static method CRM_Contact_Form_Task_PDFLetterCommon::createActivities() should not be called statically in CRM_Contact_Form_Task_PDFLetterCommon::createActivities() (regel 22 van /var/www/persoonlijk/civi4.4/custom/extensions/be.dizzymisslizzy.pdfletterevents/CRM/Pdfletterevents/Form/Task/PDFLetterCommon.php).

Hey Lobo,

i based this functionality mainly on the same functionality for memberships and I get the warning too when i sent an pdf letter for memberships but then on the postprocess function in CRM_Member_Form_Task_PDFLetterCommon. So i'm a bit puzzled whether it is a core code problem or a problem in my code.

Strict warning: Declaration of CRM_Member_Form_Task_PDFLetterCommon::postProcess() should be compatible with CRM_Contact_Form_Task_PDFLetterCommon::postProcess(&$form) in CRM_Core_ClassLoader::loadClass() (regel 126 van /var/www/persoonlijk/civi4.4/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/ClassLoader.php).

Allright, I added the extension to the extensions directory, and i'll try to put it into core this weekend.

Hi all,

I wondered if you can help us?

We are a small veterans charity that organises and runs a huge number of events. We already have an installation of Civi that is being used for several things within the organisation, but the next major step is to move the administration of the events side onto Civi.  We’d love to be able to generate letters against lists of participants, using custom tokens relating to custom data created against Participants, and generate mailing labels too - but of course these options are missing from the actions menu if you are working from the 'Find Participants' results list.

We have tried installing the ‘PDF Letters for participants’ extension, but it didn’t work for us – we got the following error:

Parse error in extension: Failed to parse info XML: File=/var/www/vhosts/nfassociation.org/httpdocs/civiextensions/info.xml Line=3 Column=3 Code=5: Extra content at the end of the document.

We are using Wordpress 3.4.2. and Civi 4.4.6. Has anyone else seen this error?

I noticed that there is talk of adding this to core, so I'd like to reiterate the query posted below by francescbassas! I even went so far as to email DizzyMissLizzy, but have yet to hear back so I thought I'd re-post here.

If there has been issues with this project, it's be great to hear as we may try to get some funding or ‘make it happen’ because we think it’s great functionality which would greatly help our organisation. We'd like to suggest also adding the complementary ‘Actions menu’ choice of Mailing labels.

Any advice anyone may have would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers