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Use case:

• User creates a new contribution, and designates an organization using a contact reference custom field in the Contribution profile
• Upon save, the contribution's contact_id is switched from the user who made it the contact_id of the organization designated in the contact_reference field

I'm using the _post hook for this, as _pre didn't seem to cut it (couldn't get the contribution entity id in the _pre hook for some reason).

I used the code here as a model for getting the custom field values: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC33/CiviCRM+hook+specification#CiviCRMhookspecification-Noteonsettingandgettingcustomfieldvaluesinhooks

In the _post hook I am trying to retrieve the org's contact id from the custom field, and update the contribution to switch its owner to the org's contact id.

Here's the code in the hook: http://laken.pastebin.com/kfd0xr9F

This is all working during the 'edit' operation, but during the 'create' operation (where it's needed) I'm getting this error back from the CRM_Core_BAO_CustomValueTable::getValues call:

     No values found for the specified entity ID and custom field(s).

The $get_params array seems to be properly structured, e.g.:

• entityID (Integer) 125
• custom_84 (Integer) 1

Why does this fail on 'create', but work on 'edit'?

This is in 3.2.5, and we are in the middle of upgrading to 3.3.x