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Hello,

I'm using the API explorer to try a simple Contact / Get call. If I query the entire detail of the contacts, I can obtain it without problems:

/civicrm/ajax/rest?entity=Contact&action=get&debug=1&sequential=1&json=1
I obtain a lot of information about the contacts (phone, email, name, address, etc).

But I want to specify the returned fields, because I want to obtain the value of a custom field (in particular, custom_2). So, I added the return parameter to the API call:

/civicrm/ajax/rest?entity=Contact&action=get&debug=1&sequential=1&json=1&return=custom_2,email,phone
The problem is that if I add the return parameter, phone is not returned. Note that I added custom_2,email,phone to the field list. I can specify every field I want in the return field list but the phone. It's being ignored!

I know that I can obtain it if I perform a second API call but I would like to know if I am doing something wrong.

Can you, please, go to your API explorer, try this call:

/civicrm/ajax/rest?entity=Contact&action=get&debug=1&sequential=1&json=1&return=phone,email
... and tell me if phone is one of the returned fields?

Thanks!

I'm using:
* CiviCRM 4.3.5 over Drupal 7