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I have been going made figuring out where I was going wrong & have just figured it out but don't know the fix.

Basically I want to update a civicrm_contact custom field based on an address field.

Using the address hook I can set it - but it seems that when I am working off the contact dashboard there is a subsequent save of custom data which over-writes it. I can see it happening in the civicrm_custom hook - but there is no way I can see to prevent it.....

I suppose I could do it at the form layer but then I'd have to figure out all the possible ways that the data could be set (all the forms) which seems like a bit of a pig.

I feel perhaps a civicrm_custom_pre hook would be the answer.

Hmm - I could do that if it were a PRE hook. I suppose I still can - like:

1) save custom info
2) custom info gets overwritten
3) in post hook straight after data overwritten call to re-update it