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DB hacked changes not recognized
January 28, 2010, 09:55:50 pm
Hi Folks,

I'm new to CiviCRM (and think it's great), and have been hacking Drupal for a while.

I wrote some perl scripts that dig directly into the DB for customization a client needed. I wrote the data I needed to, but Civi doesn't realize that  ;) I'm filling custom data fields.
In Drupal, you sometimes have to do an update and kick things to have changes read and caches flushed. How do I do something like that in Civi? The data is there when I go to edit the custom fields, but isn't displayed when initially viewing.

Thanx and keep up the great work.

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Re: DB hacked changes not recognized
January 29, 2010, 08:10:04 am

are you just adding data to the custom field tables?, i.e. insert/update/delete on the civicrm_value_* tables? or are you adding or removing custom fields

if the former, you dont need to do anything (i do that a fair amount in some of my code). If it does not show up, it most likely is a wrong format

if the latter, please do a "truncate civicrm_cache;" after a modification (there are more efficient ways of doing that)

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        // reset the cache                                             
        require_once 'CRM/Core/BAO/Cache.php';
        CRM_Core_BAO_Cache::deleteGroup( 'contact fields' );

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Re: DB hacked changes not recognized
January 29, 2010, 09:13:44 am
Glad to hear I didn't transgress too far  ;D

I didn't add any fields, just updated existing fields. Problem was system didn't realize it.

Before editing, no address was shown. When I went to edit, I saw correct address info I'd perled in. Once saved all was groovy. I think it has something to do with the civicrm_log not being updated and the system using old data? The civicrm_cache is very sparse: only 38 entries, so that's not storing that much. Is info cached elsewhere? I updated thousands of address records. Is there a way to amnesiaize the system and have it reread all contact data?

Thanx.
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