Add custom field to reminder email in calls module

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Hello,
I’ve extended the call class in the custom calls module in order to add fields to the notification email.
to do that I have used the xtpl in the notification_body function and added my fields.

I have also modified the notification_template.html in custom/include/language/ and succeed to add my fields. I have replicated the first email in the reminder email and it arrives with the right modified html.

The problem is that the reminder email doesn’t have the custom fields I have added…so do I need to add those fields to some other xtpl for the reminder? I have tried to look into the activities module and modify some functions in the emailReminder.php but nothing seems to change!

Please help!!!
thanks

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Are you using the correct custom field names, ending in _c? It should work, those fields are part of the Bean.

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Hi there thanks for the answer.
Well it works for the normal invite but it didn’t work for the reminder.

Good thins is that I coped to add my fields assigning them directly in the Activities module file EmailReminder.

I have modified the sendReminders function and assigned to the xtpl before the $xtpl->parse($template_name);

Now it works properly just that I would have prefer to extend the class in the custom module…but there is no activities custom module…So perhaps this is not update safe!

Do you think I can extend the emailReminder class in the custom call module and add this stuff?

thanks

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You can try… I’m not sure what the results will be.

I think that the way this is being called for the reminders (via Schedulers…) is different than for invites:

you can trace what that does afterwards, you’ll see that set_notification_body
isn’t called, so you can’t override it in the same way as for invites and notifications. I suppose it is possible to just override the EmailReminder class methods instead.

I plan to move all this invites/notifications/reminders to a different templating system (like the one I use here) so I’m don’t think it’s worth investing much in improving the current scheme…

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thanks @pgr for now I can just modify the emailReminder.php because I can’t quite cope to extend the class neither in the custom call module or replicating the Activities module in the custom folder…maybe as you are saying I could work on the scheduler and maybe let it call my custom emailReminder.php !!
anyway I might try to work on it at some point.

I see your link and there is quite a step forward there but, is that in a github repo? I can’t really see how to get that addon!

thanks

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fair enough I’d say bills first!!!
thanks I think I can advice the company I work for to get this addon for a donation!
will let you know, thanks again!

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