Creating contacts with id

[huulbaek]

Hi!

I'm trying to create a lot of new contacts with the API - it's an import from our obsolete member database. Because I want the contact_id to match the id's in our financial system, I want to create them with the same id. However, that will only try to update an existing record, right?

Is there any way where I could get a create call working with an id - like in the parameters below? It throws an error but all is ok if I omit the id.

Code: [Select]

$params = array(
'id' => $excel_id,
'first_name' => $first_name,
'last_name' => $last_name,
'contact_type' => 'Individual',
'street_address' => $full_address,
'preffered_language' => 'da_DK',
'custom_6' => $kommune,
);


[Eileen]

If you want to keep old ids you need to create some dummy records via sql - which you can then alter via the import (& then at the end delete all the ones that still have your dummy values if you haven't done exactly the right ids)

[huulbaek]

Thank you, Eileen, that worked out fine.