Contribution Note Smarty Variable

Question

So I'm super close to getting a smarty variable working to place the contribution note in a thank you letter.

I used the API explorer and got this far:

{crmAPI var='result' entity='Note' action='get' sequential=0 entity_table="civicrm_contribution" entity_id=$contribution.contribution_id}
{foreach from=$result.values item=note}
  {$note.note}
{/foreach}

But this prints a list of all contribution notes in the database, it doesn't filter out by the contribution ID. I know that the variable contribution.contribution_id works in the thank you letter as a standalone variable. I also can use the above code and substitute entity_id=1and that does print the note attached to contribution 1.

How can I put a smarty variable inside the smarty variable api call??

(Wordpress 4.3.2 and Civi 4.6.4)

Answer 1

I might be missing something but, the contribution.contribution_id variable you are referring as a standalone variable I believe is a token, I can't figure out what's the smarty variable for it but you can do this (it works):

{capture assign='id'} // the variable
   {contribution.contribution_id} // here is the Contribution ID token
{/capture}

And then your API call:

{crmAPI var='result' entity='Note' action='get' sequential=0 entity_table="civicrm_contribution" entity_id=$id}

Update: final snippet should look like this, I've just tested it

{capture assign='id'}{contribution.contribution_id}{/capture}
{crmAPI var='result' entity='Note' action='get' entity_table="civicrm_contribution" entity_id=$id}
{foreach from=$result.values item=note}
  {$note.note}
{/foreach}