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Hi,

I have several addresses (different locations), and several phone numbers, that are or aren't linked with the location.

I want to use an api to update the phone numbers, and delete some specific phone numbers.

How can I use civicrm_location_delete ? I wants a location_type, but it isn't relevant for a phone number or email, is it ?

Or a side note, the location api needs a complex structure as params, might be better to split it on smaller easier to manage apis ?
civicrm_mail_xxx, civicrm_phone_xxx, civicrm_address_xxx ?

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I might offer myself to help with that? I have some experience with the API's but need much more solid background on the architecture.....hopefully I will get some of that at the Brussels developer camp. Whilst we are on the subject of API's, I will need to build a number of interfaces for a project (contacts and documents). At the moment I am thinking of making these XML-interfaces so that I can use it for more future projects and make it easier for third parties to link in. How does that sound?

I have done two conversions of data from other systems to CiviCRM. For the project to come I will have to create an interface between the main transaction system of the customer (an Oracle application) and CiviCRM, where individuals and households are imported. I have done this once during the prototype by reading a CVS-file and transforming that to data that I can use to populate the parameters in the API.
What I would like to do is prescribe an XML-format (for example for individuals) and then create an application that takes data from that XML-file and uses the API to populate the CiviCRM database. In that way I can use the same application to import data from other main transaction systems at clients, and if required I can ask another party to deliver an XML-file rather than explain how their data looks like (which suppliers from closed software sometimes do not want do disclose). Does this make sense?
Erik