Author Topic: Contact API and custom fields (Read 1171 times)

chirayu · September 01, 2010, 07:27:10 am

Hi

I am trying to add data to a custom field for a contact.

The field type is integer text. Here is what I want to achieve:
> If updating a contact add the custom data as a new value (not to erase the earlier values). So the civicrm_contact_update function should not erase the earlier values and add this new value as a new record.

Can anyone be of any help?

Donald Lobo · September 01, 2010, 07:47:38 am

i dont think the contact add/update api calls know about multiple record custom groups

if this is an important feature, please consider investigating the code and adding support for this

lobo

chirayu · September 01, 2010, 07:57:30 am

Leave the multi-value functionality, I simply want to add data to custom fields of a contact. I cannot do that with civicrm_contact_update. Here is my code:

Code: [Select]

$params = array( 'custom_15' => 100,
                        'contact_id'  => 102,
                        'contact_type' => 'Individual');

$contact = civicrm_contact_update($params);

I have run this, there is no error ('is_error' value in $contact is 0). However, the value 100 for the custom field is not showing in CiviCRM. Why is this?? Any fix??

chirayu · September 03, 2010, 03:19:48 am

Found the error:

In CiviCRM, I checked the option 'View Only' while creating the custom field for Contacts. I did this so that I could only change the field using my PHP code and to disable users of CiviCRM from manipulating the field. The help option next to the 'View Only' says "Is this field set by PHP code (via a custom hook). This field will not be updated by CiviCRM."

The help is misleading. When I unchecked the 'View Only' and ran my PHP code I found that I had successfully made changes to the field using my PHP code.

For the administrators, is this a bug within CiviCRM? If so, could we have a fix?

Thanks for your help lobo.

Chirayu

chirayu · September 03, 2010, 03:42:00 am

I just added a second record to the custom field. Done!!

Here is the code:

Code: [Select]

$params = array(
                       'custom_15' => '108',
                       'contact_id' => '102',
                       'contact_type' => 'Individual');
$contact = civicrm_contact_update($params);


$params = array(
                       'custom_15' => '101',
                       'contact_id' => '102',
                       'contact_type' => 'Individual');
$contact = civicrm_contact_update($params);

The above code displays two records for the field custom_15 in CiviCRM with values 108 and 101.
Hope it helps!

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