Listing Groups in a mail template

Question

I'm creating an email template to be used to confirm a contact's membership status, and I would like to include a list of the Groups (representing Committees in our case) that the contact belongs to.

I have tried including the token {contact.Group(s)} (with various capitalizations, inclusion of parentheses, etc.) without success.

I can include a token that sends the user to the form where they can see and edit those memberships, but I would rather just list them. I thought this would just be in the drop-down list of tokens, but no, and I can't find any reference to this in the manuals. Any suggestions?

Thanks as always. I'm using CiviCRM for WordPress, current versions.

Answer 1

As far as I know, that token doesn't exist, in core or in an extension. It's not a bad idea though; it would be quick to write. As with most tokens that list multiple fields, the real trick is in formatting. Some will want them in a particular order; some want them comma-separated vs. each on their own line, etc.

Answer 2

As said by Jon its not available in core or in an extension. You can either write extension and implement hook_civicrm_tokens and hook_civicrm_tokenValues to add and generate token for the contact or you can use smarty with the help of Civi api

eg:

{capture assign=contactId}{contact.contact_id}{/capture}
{crmAPI var='result' entity='GroupContact' action='get' sequential=0 contact_id=$contactId status="Added"}

{foreach from=$result.values item=groupcontact}
  {$groupcontact.title}</br>
{/foreach}

HTH

Pradeep