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I'm on day 2 of experience with CiviCRM. What a great system!

I'm curious to know if there is an addon that will generate a confirmation number for CiviEvent registration?

Thanks,
Greg

Well, this may be a start then. My first thought is that the confirmation number is something the recipient can feel good about. Getting that number means they have confidence in their registration.

Maybe the quickest/easiest way would be to add it to the email receipt. I set up my system so that both the organizer and the registrant receive a copy - then both parties have the number. That's quick and dirty...

I like your suggestion about being able to search for it. It would also need to be a longer number (I haven't looked but figure that the participant ID number starts at 1). So it would have to be 00001 or similar - maybe start it higher as I'd feel like I was going to be the only one there if I registered and received such a confirmation number. Maybe it has to be random?

Someone with call-center experience has ideas? The phone companies always give me a confirmation order.

Assuming you can "construct" the value by adding constants to the pariticipant ID - try creating a custom copy of this tpl and adding it (not sure if participant ID is avail to the tpl - but should be - you can also add {debug} as a line in the tpl and when the email is spit out it will have all available variables.

templates/CRM/Event/Form/Registration/ReceiptMessage.tpl

1. u will need to expose this in the php code.

CRM/Event/Form/Registration.php, line 544

$this->assign( 'registerByID', $participant->id );

2. In the smarty templates you can use $registerByID

Note that this is not complete if you allow multiple folks to register

lobo

Ok I tried it out but am missing a couple of things.

What do you mean by expose the code?

In the receiptmessage.tpl file, I inserted a {ts}Confirmation number:{/ts} {$registerByID}

but nothing shows up...

Hi Lobo, I re-read your instructions after your last post. I had thought it was the same line of code that is already at line 544 because they are so similar. So I added it and it works like a charm.

Thanks!
Greg

can you file an issue in the issue tracker and point to this forum post. We'll consider it for inclusion in a future 2.x/3.x release

If this is important to you/your org, you might want to consider either hiring someone to do it and/or sponsor the development of the feature.

lobo

Check the earlier posts on this topic about how to add the "registerByID" which is the participant.id

i'm pretty sure that event title and id are already exposed to the smarty template, so you can use that

you can potentially inline some php within the smarty template to generate your checksum

lobo