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I've created a couple of custom fields, one to attach to individual records and one to attach to organization record.

using the "civicrm_api( 'contact','get',$params )" function I can get the standard data but how do I get the data from the custom field?

also - I've created a group and added an organization to it. How do i retrieve all organisations for a specified group?

cheers

Pretty sûre return Array ( custom_11,sortname...) works too. If it doesn't it Will.

Filtering : contact_type=Organization,group=42

try adding

'return.custom_11' => 1

to your params

(where 11 is the field id).

Note that you may have to specify other return fields that were previously returned by default. Using 'return' makes for more efficient queries

Thanks, that works. Is this documented somewhere as it's going to make things a lot easier & clearer in my code

Interestingly, by using the return.fieldname some of the fields don't return

specifically when getting contact information, the state_province_name stops being retrieved. I can't get the state_province_name_id either so I've now had to do 2 retrieves. One to gett he custom field and one to get everything else

oh well, such is life. At least I can retrieve what i need now