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I want to generate membership cards based on a person's geographical region. The region logic is fairly complex (e.g. "Anyone in NY, plus New Jersey north of Trenton and Connecticut west of Stamford"). I have smart groups that accurately place someone by region.

Before we used smart groups, we manually added folks to static groups based on region. An extension called civicrm_post on the GroupContact to set the custom field. However, civicrm_post isn't called on smart groups.

Does anyone have any ideas? I don't mind using SQL in a cron job, but I'm not sure that civicrm_group_contact_cache is reliably filled with the correct data - in older versions of Civi at least, I often found it empty.

This is Civi 4.6.10, Wordpress.

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In your own cron job you could reload the cache for groups by calling civicrm_api3_job_group_rebuild() (https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/blob/master/api/v3/Job.php#L629), then cycle through the group to fill your custom field.

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  • Brilliant, Joe. This work is scheduled for a couple of weeks from now, I'll mark it accepted assuming this works! – Jon G - Megaphone Tech Dec 3 '15 at 20:19

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