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Hi

I have set up a view displaying civicrm-contacts. Utilising the drupal modules "civicrm entity" and "views bulk operations" I'm able to make some custom actions using the civicrm api. As an example the current logged in user can select some contacts in the view, and make them "their" contacts - the action makes a call to civicrm_api("relationship", "create", ...), and the view has an exposed filter, where the user can choose to see only their own contacts or all the contacts. That this is possible is awesome!

Now I would like to make an action doing what the civicrm search task "Mailing Labels" does. Basically I would like to let the user select some contacts in the view, and select a VBO-action "Print Mailing Labels", which sends the user to the same form in civicrm as if you had done a search in civicrm and chosen that task. In the custom action being called by VBO, I have an array with all the chosen contact_id's, and I imagine all the action have to do is give this array to the Label function in civicrm, and voilá ... I have looked at the CRM/Contact/Form/Task/Label.php, but I'm a bit lost at how this works, or rather how I would call it with all the right arguments. It could also just skip the civicrm-form all together and just make the labels, as we always use the same settings for printing labels.

Has someone done something like this before?

Cheers and thanks in advance for any help and pointers.
/Anders:)

yep i would still go the way eileen describes - use views to find 'your' contacts, then provide them a PDF option that will print out that list of names but formatted for labels (that will use a different Views display)