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Hi, i've been using the api with smarty to try to get a list of a contact's activities - i can get the subject and the activity_type_id with
{crmAPI var="ActivityS" entity="Activity" action="get" version="3" contact_id="1" }
and if i use the api explorer i can see that
{crmAPI var="ActivityTypeS" entity="ActivityType" action="get" version="3" }will get me a list of the types which correspond to the activity_type_id, but i can't work out how to display the right one - for everything else it's {$Something.field} but the format of ActivityType seems different..

I assume this is reasonably simple but trial and error are getting me nowhere and i don't really know enough about what is happening to search through smarty documentation. any help appreciated! thanks

ok so if i use:

{crmAPI var="ActivityTypeS" entity="ActivityType" action="get" version="3" }

{foreach from=$ActivityTypeS.values item=ActivityType}
<li>{$ActivityType}</li>
{/foreach}
that gives me each of the activity types - how do i specify that i only want entry # from the $ActivityTypeS array? so i suppose i don't want "foreach" but rather "for just this one number"..

thanks!

{crmAPI var="ActivityTypeS" entity="ActivityType" action="get" version="3" id="42" }
hmm but there is no "id" for ActivityTypeS.. the following returns all of them:

http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/api/doc#/civicrm/ajax/rest?json=1&debug=1&version=3&entity=ActivityType&action=get&id=5

{
"is_error":0,
"version":3,
"count":40,
"values":{
"45":"Volunteer Inquiry",
"3":"Email",
"33":"Interview",
"1":"Meeting",
...
"40":"Income and benefits stabilization",
"42":"Long-term housing plan",
"44":"ADC referral"
}
}
what i want:
i can use Activity get to return activities associated with a contact. for each of those i can get the activity_type_id. I can see from the list that the above gives that this activity_type_id matches the relevant activity type (i.e. "5":"Event Registration", ) but i don't know how to actually print that!

My desired result is:
Event Registration: Activity Subject
Event Registration: Activity Subject 2
Meeting: Activity Subject 3
etc

not really sure how getsingle works either, though i see it wouldn't be with smarty anyway.

sorry if i'm still not making sense.
thanks
david