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Sorry to bring such an old thread back to life, but I am looking to include a confirmation number and have a couple of questions. I am running CiviCRM 3.1.3 and was wondering if an easier solution was addressed with the new release. (The solution here seems easy enough, but as a non-programmer wanted to make sure before changing code around.) Also, is it possible to report out on this info with CiviReport if it were set up this way? It just needs to be a simple report with name, email, and conf. #.

For a little background, the events are actually webinars, and we would like to generate a random number at the time of registration, then upload those names and email addresses to the webinar software to use as usernames and passwords. Thanks in advance for any help.

Thanks Lobo. I made the change in the php but am having trouble finding the receipt message. I did a search and found other posts with the path:
templates/CRM/Event/Form/Registration/ReceiptMessage.tpl, but I've looked there and everywhere else I can think of and can't find it. Did this file change in the last release or am I doing something stupid? The next step will be to modify the report. I haven't even started with that yet, but any quick suggestions on how-to would be appreciated. Thanks again for the great software and support.

You guys are the best. I had a little trouble at first until I realized that the php code required goes on line 716 in release 3.1.

Not 100% sure that variable is available to the message templates - hopefully it is. HOWEVER, the code you have above is definitely not correct. You should either put the $registerByID variable outside of the {ts} tags, or use the "reference" mechanism.

// instead of this
{ts}Confirmation number: CSF2009-{$registerByID}{/ts}

// try this (doesn't make sense to translate the prefix or punctuation so also move them out
{ts}Confirmation number{/ts}: CSF2009-{$registerByID}

// this is the correct way to include smarty vars in a {ts} string (altho above makes more sense to me for this situation
{ts 1=$registerByID}Confirmation number: CSF2009-%1{/ts}


Thanks Dave & Peter,
What I want to do is: After participant registered, on the "Thank-you screen" and "In the confirmation email that participant received"
, show the participant ID as the confirmation number.

I found the statement "$this->set( 'registerByID', $participant->id );" on line 718 in the "function confirmPostProcess()".

I copied the statement to anywhere in the "function assignToTemplate( )" and modified the statement in both templates as Dave suggested. On the Thank-you Screen, I put "Your confirmation number is {$registerByID}" in the Thank-you screen--> Introductory text section. Neither email nor thank-you screen shows participant id

I guess I still have "$this->set( 'registerByID', $participant->id );" statement in the wrong place. Any suggestions?

I copied

<tr><td align="right">
<BR>Registration No. {$participantID}</td></tr>

and pasted it right under

 <!-- BEGIN CONTENT -->

I got "Registration No." showing on the right hand side and on first line of the confirmation email I received. The {$participantID} was translated as blank.
May I know where I should place the code "$this->set( 'registerByID', $participant->id );" or I don't even need to place this code at all?
Thanks for the help.

After more digging, I was able to pull data from contact table such as contact.contact_id (based on token documentation). But, I still unable to pull the data out of participant table such as participant.id, which is what I want. Also, after submittion, on the thank-you for registration screen, I was unable to pull anything neither data from contact table nor participant table.

Does anyone have more ideas? Thanks,