Thank You page on contribution form. Print option for the PDF that is emailed as "receipt.pdf"

Question

When completing a contribution, an email can be sent out with an attached PDF called "receipt.pdf". Is it possible to have this PDF printable on the Thank You page? I currently have a sloppy Print Button on my ThankYou.extra.tpl file, but it is not clean because I am using: $('#crm-main-content-wrapper').before('<div id="print-button"><p><a href="javascript:window.print()" class="btn btn-primary">Print</a></p></div>'); , which is basically printing the entire webpage. I also tried the &snippet=2 approach in the URL, but that is also too sloppy for the client.

Does anyone know of how to hook into that PDF generation code and spit it out into the ThankYou template?

Answer 1

Not tested yet, but can you try calling /civicrm/contribute/invoice?reset=1&id=<contribution_id>&cid=<contact_id> in the href instead of javascript:window.print()?

Note that the token <contribution_id> is the payment id that was created after you submitted the contribution form. <contact_id> is the id of the contact to which contribution belongs. Check if you can already get this in the thankyou template variables. More info - https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/tools/debugging/#in-smarty-template-files

Also, make sure you've permission to download the invoice. I think civi requires either access CiviContribute or view my invoices.

UPDATE - For Joomla - The url is - /index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/contribute/invoice&reset=1&id=< contribution_id>&cid=<contact_id>