Question: when is the Ticket PDF being generated?

[Anonymous]

Hi Franky,

just a quick question: When exactly does the generation of ticket pdfs happen in EME?

For admin purposes I created a page on which I list all the bookings for an event and show a link to the ticket PDFs, if bookings are paid/approved (with EME conditional tags). Also, I show the user uploaded files if avaialable.

This is my code snippet for this:
[eme_if tag="#ESC_IS_PAID" eq=1]Ticket | Badge<br>[/eme_if]
[eme_if tag="#ESC_FILES"]#_FILES[/eme_if]

But when this page gets displayed, ALL ticket PDFs are being generated on the server, including the unpaid/not approved ones. The conditional tag works correctly – the links are not being displayed on the page. But the ticket PDFs have been generated in the folder /wp-content/uploads/events-made-easy/bookings/ on the server.

Which is kind of a problem for me because I include the #_BOOKINGPAYMENTDATE placeholder, which obviously is not yet available until a payment has been made.

It would help me if I better understood the logic behind the ticket PDFs.
It seems the generation routine gets triggered every time I use the #_BOOKINGPDF_URL{xx} which makes sense.
But in my case it fires even though it is “behind” a conditional tag, correct?

[Franky]

The eme_if part is being handled the latest (because first the placeholders need to be replaced with actual values before the if-logic can be executed). So that’s why the pdf’s are being generated.

[Anonymous]

Got it. Makes sense now.
Thank you.

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