Author Topic: Adding Custom Data To Contacts (Read 1131 times)

spork · January 20, 2011, 09:57:55 am

Sorry if this is an obvious problem, but I am having difficulty finding a way to add custom data to a contact through the public API. The custom data public API seems to be only for defining the custom data structure and the contact public API can retrieve custom fields for a contact but it doesn't seem to mention anything about setting them.

I've been digging in the database seeing how CiviCRM stores custom data (in a civicrm_value_<customgroupname>_<customgroupid> table) but I figure there's probably an internal API function that I'd be better off using...

Eileen · January 20, 2011, 10:32:12 am

You can pass custom data into the create functions - I just added an example. You can also pass it into contact_update (in api v3 we will only use update not create & the presense of contact_id will determine update vs add but not quite sure whether contact_create works like that in v2 - I think it does)

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC33/Contact+APIs#ContactAPIs-civicrmcontactcreate%28%26%24params%29

spork · January 20, 2011, 11:30:51 am

Okay, nice. From the civicrm_contact_update example it looks like I can just add 'custom_<fieldid>' => <customdata> to $params... though I'm thinking there might be an issue in the future since I there's a good chance we will be modeling some of our data using multirecord custom groups.

Thanks
spork

Eileen · January 20, 2011, 12:04:52 pm

So, in the latest version (not sure whether 3.3.x or 3.4) there is a patch that allows you to do multi-field by id e.g

custom_12_23 ="blah"

But as at current (or before the patch)

custom_12 ="blah"

is all that's accepted & it adds an entry to the multi-field set rather than updating

xavier · January 20, 2011, 02:56:55 pm

Hi,

You might need to dig into how the multiple records custom set is saved from the web interface, and I'm guessing you will have to implement the API for that case.

Not super complicated, but you'll need to find your way on the code base.

(haven't looked, but haven't heard of someone using the API like you intend to).

Good luck

X+

Eileen · January 20, 2011, 03:00:49 pm

Xavier - the bit I was refering to is api behaviour in 3.4 by virtue of a core patch having been applied (I've tested the patch on 3.2.5 & it works to give the same behaviour)

xavier · January 20, 2011, 03:30:14 pm

So it does mean that 23 is the 23th "copy" of the custom field 12 ?

Quote from: Eileen on January 20, 2011, 12:04:52 pm

custom_12_23 ="blah"

Eileen · January 20, 2011, 03:53:53 pm

almost 23 is the field id in the relevant custom data table

xavier · January 20, 2011, 04:18:48 pm

and 12?

Quote from: Eileen on January 20, 2011, 03:53:53 pm

almost 23 is the field id in the relevant custom data table

Eileen · January 20, 2011, 04:29:02 pm

So, my custom field is

electorate_248

and there is a field 'id'

so custom_248_52 is the same as

UPDATE civicrm_value_electorates_1 SET electorate_248 = "blach" WHERE id = 52

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