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Hi,

we are in progress of reworking our Alumni system with CiviCRM. Right now I have the following problem:
I setup a Tag Set called "Field of Study". Our students add tags in their Profile/Summary Page like "Chemistry", "Economics" and so on which works great.

Now I want to list via the API within the summary page the child tags (Chemistry, Economics etc.) of the Parent Tag (Field of Study) that the specific student choose.

Unlike the call "GroupContact", I don't know how to tell the api to filter for a certain contact_id, so it just shows the tags of a contact.
$results=civicrm_api("TagContact","get", array ('version' =>'3', 'contact_id' =>'102'));
I would be very thankful if someone could show me a solution to get those Tags depending on the contact viewed.

Sincerely
Sondy

Hey,

almost :-)

This query shows me all the tags a contact has. I just want those tags, that belong to the parent tag set "Field of Study".

I'll just explain what I did:
I went to: Administer -> Option Lists -> Tags (Categories)
and created a new Tag Set (Add Tag Set) which is called "Field of Study" which has the ID: 6.
Now Students go to their profile under the "Tags Tap" and add Tags to the Tag Set "Field of Study". This could be "Chemistry", "Economics", "Physics" and so on.
All those student entered tags show up now under [Administer -> Option Lists -> Tags (Categories)] with the information Parent ID -> "Field of Study (6)" next to it. For example:
chemistry - id: 7 - parent_id:6
economics - id: 8 - parent_id:6
physics - id: 9 - parent_id:6
(...)

What I want to do now is this:
Extend the area above the summary.tpl to show the following - Name and a list of the Subjects the Student studies:

John Doe
Field of Study: Economics, Chemistry <- where this has to be a query that pulls the tags (subjects the student studies) - pseudo code: show tags of contact_id=1 [if] tag has parent_id=6

We are very new to civicrm - its very hard to get through all the parameters and structure.

thank you

Oh, I'm very new to php, civicrm and the whole idea of a API etc. I'm an economics student just volunteering reassembling our alumni system.
For now I'm probably more the one that needs the support. But as soon I know my way around and can contribute, I surely will.

After a while I figured I could just combine the "EntityTag" call and the "Tag" call it to get what I wanted. Maybe its a little immature, but it works. One of my first php functions ^^

Funtion to create an array of tags of a contact id ($func_contactId) which tags belong to a certain parent tag id ($func_tag_parrent_id)
function pac_contact_child_tags($func_contactId, $func_tag_parrent_id) {
require_once 'api/api.php';
$func_entitytag=civicrm_api("EntityTag","get", array ('version' =>'3', 'contact_id' =>$func_contactId));
foreach ($func_entitytag["values"] as $func_entitytag_tag_id) {
$func_tag=civicrm_api("Tag","get", array ('version' =>'3', 'id' =>$func_entitytag_tag_id[tag_id]));
if ($func_tag["values"][$func_entitytag_tag_id[tag_id]]["parent_id"] == $func_tag_parrent_id) {
$func_tag_filtered[] = $func_tag["values"][$func_entitytag_tag_id[tag_id]]["name"];
}
}
return $func_tag_filtered;
}

To list the Tags of a Parent Tag in the summary template
{php}
$pac_contactId = $this->get_template_vars('contactId');
$i = 0;
foreach (pac_contact_child_tags($pac_contactId, 6) as $pac_tag) {
if ($i > 0) {
echo ", ";
}
echo $pac_tag;
$i++;
}
{/php}
Output
economics, chemistry

I would like to gather all the functions/classes outside of the template. Where should a put my "function_reposetory.php" in the cms structure so I can include it in the template when I need it?

Thank you for your answers. I'm open to criticism.

Sondy