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• CiviCRM API gives you a list of deleted contacts as well. And there is no way to identify if a contact has been deleted or not. i.e. No log entry

I think Erik has worked on that on the api v3 already. if not, have you tried passing a is_deleted = 0 param ?

@erik, could you confirm ?

• CiviCRM contact and group relationship updates. Group and Tags are not logged and hence if a contact has been added to a group or removed from a group it is not possible to get the data from the API. Of course it is not even logged in the database so not only the API but the code of civicrm will need further improvement.

As you said, this one isn't an API issue but something on the underlying system. I'm sure that the new log system is super useful, but doesn't seem to cover properly that need.

I would like to have the civicrm_log extended with two new columns:
* action: (create, update, delete)
* id_contact
and beside the existing places where we log the changes ( civicrm_activity, civicrm_contact, civicrm_domain, civicrm_event, civicrm_participant) add civicrm_group_contact and civicrm_entity_tag

@lobo, what do you think ?

• There is a confusion and I won’t yet say that is a limitation of the API but when we are trying to get the contacts which were updated from the last update time. If the computer time has been changed for any reason there is a possibility that the contacts sync may get mixed up. Not sure if it will be good to have server time made available through the API.

 

Might be useful to add an api 'config' and an action ''gettime', so would solve the tz problem.

If you change the server time, well, you shouldn't

@x+

I would like to have the civicrm_log extended with two new columns:
* action: (create, update, delete)
* id_contact
and beside the existing places where we log the changes ( civicrm_activity, civicrm_contact, civicrm_domain, civicrm_event, civicrm_participant) add civicrm_group_contact and civicrm_entity_tag

I double that. In the absence of a log populated with group changes we will not be able to sync the groups efficiently. Any thoughts most welcome.

Might be useful to add an api 'config' and an action ''gettime', so would solve the tz problem.

We will be more than happy to implement this API if it can be included in the core?

@erik
Thanks for that. We are working with API v2 and civicrm version 3.2 at the moment

? If everytime in the BAO of group_contact when you Create Update Delete you add an entry (contact_id, group_id) the changes are added in the log and so you can fetch all the latest changes, no ?

Sorry Xavier... I meant that I support the idea of having a log like above. Now the question is what is required to implement this.

Any comments from others?

I think having a config (that could be extended to read/write the language, currency...)

Does this overlap at all with the Constant api? (not currently working or compliant in v3)