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Hi,

Very impressed by how much good new stuff has been crammed into 3.1.beta2! The team has been busy, good work.

I've been trying out contact subtypes. Seems to work well in the UI, from a brief play, but isn't currently supported in the API:

"Invalid Contact Type: Care Provider"

mysql> select * from civicrm_contact_type;
+----+---------------------+---------------------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-------------+
| id | name                | label               | description | image_URL | parent_id | is_active | is_reserved |
+----+---------------------+---------------------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-------------+
|  1 | Individual          | Individual          | NULL        | NULL      |      NULL |         1 |           1 |
|  2 | Household           | Household           | NULL        | NULL      |      NULL |         1 |           1 |
|  3 | Organization        | Organization        | NULL        | NULL      |      NULL |         1 |           1 |
|  4 | Care_Provider       | Care Provider       | NULL        | NULL      |         3 |         1 |        NULL |
|  5 | Parent_Organisation | Parent Organisation | NULL        | NULL      |         3 |         1 |        NULL |
+----+---------------------+---------------------+-------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-------------+
I also tried passing 'Care_Provider'.

I think the culprits are api/v2/Contact.php civicrm_contact_check_params() and api/v2/utils.php _civicrm_required_formatted_contact(), which both hard-code the contact types.

Dave J

Hi Kurund,

I think contact type should be "Organization" and subtype "Care Provider" or "Care_Provider" ?

Ah, I see. Right, I found the winning combination:

  $orgParams = array(
    'contact_type'  => 'Organization',
    'contact_sub_type'  => 'Care_Provider',
    'organization_name' => $orgname,
  );

Many thanks, great work on 3.1. Have a wonderful holiday.

Dave J