diff --git a/www/secretary/workbench/views/actions/ccla.json.rb b/www/secretary/workbench/views/actions/ccla.json.rb
index e9377d1..d4d4d09 100644
--- a/www/secretary/workbench/views/actions/ccla.json.rb
+++ b/www/secretary/workbench/views/actions/ccla.json.rb
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 
     svn_multi('officers', 'cclas.txt', 'cclas', @selected, @signature, @filename, fileext, message, @document) do |input|
       # append entry to cclas.txt
-      text + @cclalines +"\n"
+      input + @cclalines + "\n"
     end
 
   end