Tokens in greetings not replaced

Question

I implemented miscellaneous custom tokens and have been using them successfully in mailings and pdf generation.

But in context of greetings I came across some weird misbehaviour. I tested by changing email greeting and running api job.update_greeting w/ force=1.

1. When extending the token array's "contact" key with a custom token, the {contact.tokenname} markup get's interpreted but not replaced. Result is '{contact.tokenname}'.
2. When using custom key the markup {keyname.tokenname} is not recognized and even doesn't get into the hook function's token parameter. Result is '' and Smarty reports »unrecognized tag«.

Both tokens run fine in pdf generation.

I'm running latest Drupal 7 and CiviCRM.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

It sounds like the hook isn't being called (or not called correctly) when processing the update_greeting job. I think that qualifies as a bug and you could file it in issues.civicrm.org. But due to the high volume of issues, a core team member may not be available to jump on it anytime soon. I'd suggest you keep on with your debugging and compare the code that runs during that scheduled job to the code that correctly uses the hook and see how they differ. If you are able to come up with a patch that even partially addresses the problem it would help the issue get a lot more attention (issues with patches get bumped up in priority).

Answer 2

I filed an issue and kind of half-fixed it so that {customkey.tokenname} shaped tokens should work. If my approach is valid this may also fix Error for token.php related to greeting tokens

My issue: https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-17038