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Hello CiviCRM,

I am attempting to write a module that will create a Drupal event node when a CiviCRM event object is created.  However, I am seeing that the civicrm_post hook is not providing me with all the available event properties that I can view in the smarty debug console, some of these being event_title and event_description.  I also notice that when an event is created it is done in tabs.  The first tab is where one gives the event a title and description, another tab is for specifying the event address.  This will be possibly problematic to my cause because my original intent was to pull all of the event info and use it to create the Drupal node, but with my current code the Drupal node is created as soon as the first tab is complete which does not include the address information etc.

IS there any way I can accomplish my goal?  I appreciate all your time and help.

(I wanted to wrap it in code tags but I got an error saying "not allowed to post external links")

function eventsfromcivi_civicrm_post( $op, $objectName, $objectId, &$objectRef ){
   if ($objectName == 'Event'){
      if ($op == 'create'){
         module_load_include('inc', 'node', 'node.pages');
         $new_event_node = array('type' => 'event');
         $form_state = array();
         $form_state['values']['title'] = $objectRef->title; // $objectRef->event_title does not work
         $form_state['values']['body'] = $objectRef->description; // $objectRef->event_description does not work
         $form_state['values']['uid'] = 1;
         $form_state['values']['name'] = "admin";
         $form_state['values']['status'] = 1; //1 = published
         $form_state['values']['op'] = t('Save');
      
         $result = drupal_execute('event_node_form', $form_state, (object)$new_event_node);
      }// if ($op == 'create')
   
   }//if ($objectName == 'Event')

}// function eventsfromcivi_civicrm_post

1.  The event and location API are seperate and I am not seeing any param that ties them together.  How can I know which location info I could call for the event in question.

civicrm_event table has "loc_block_id" column and address etc information is stored civicrm_loc_block table

2.  I need to process all this when the 'save and done' button has been pressed for an event object.  Looking through the API I have not yet found a way to fire an event when that button is pressed :/

"Save and Done" should call post hook.

HTh
Kurund

elshae:

I tried your above on 3.4.x and seems to be calling post hook. Can you check if you have enabled "eventsfromcivi" module etc.

HTh
Kurund

I have updated to 3.4.3 and still this information does not save on the 'create' operation, but more like the 'edit' operation.

I see this loc_block_id but I am not sure what it is, is that supposed to be the id of the location for the event?  How can I fetch the event's location?  Still have not been able to figure this out :/

Thanks,

elshae