Magento invoice email customization

Question

I am trying to setup a Invoice email template in Magento, and I see that the most of the informations I want is displayed.

However, I would like to display the shopping cart content with only the item's name and summary of the cart. I have some kind of product description added in the cart with every product, I don't want that part to be displayed in the email template.

I see that the cart is displayed in email template with:

{{layout area="frontend" handle="sales_email_order_invoice_items" invoice=$invoice order=$order}}

Is there a way to display only items, and without the description for every product?

Answer 1

You are heading in the right direction. Since you found the handle, a little search and you can find that the sales_email_order_invoice_items handle is in the sales.xml file.

<sales_email_order_invoice_items>
    <block type="sales/order_email_invoice_items" name="items" template="email/order/invoice/items.phtml">
        <action method="addItemRender"><type>default</type><block>sales/order_email_items_default</block><template>email/order/items/invoice/default.phtml</template></action>
        <action method="addItemRender"><type>grouped</type><block>sales/order_email_items_order_grouped</block><template>email/order/items/invoice/default.phtml</template></action>
        <block type="sales/order_invoice_totals" name="invoice_totals" template="sales/order/totals.phtml">
            <action method="setLabelProperties"><value>colspan="3" align="right" style="padding:3px 9px"</value></action>
            <action method="setValueProperties"><value>align="right" style="padding:3px 9px"</value></action>
            <block type="tax/sales_order_tax" name="tax" template="tax/order/tax.phtml"/>
        </block>
    </block>
    <block type="core/text_list" name="additional.product.info" />
</sales_email_order_invoice_items>

• The email/order/invoice/items.phtml file is responsible for main template of the invoice.
• The email/order/items/invoice/default.phtml is most probably what you are looking for, it will be used for each product to display its info.

Thus just copy the email/order/items/invoice/default.phtml into your own template folder and change whatever you need changed in that file.