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Not sure if this is something which needs fixing, or just highlighting a gap in our understanding of Civi and smarty, but when building some custom templates, we tried to follow the example from http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Smarty+interface:

For example, if you want to display a list of contacts\

{crmAPI entity='contact' action="search" var="contacts"}
<ul>
{foreach from=$contacts.values item=contact}
<li id="contact_{$contact.contact_id}">{$contact.sort_name}</li>
{/foreach}</ul>
... and this doesn't work. Replacing action="search" with action="get" works fine. Or rather it works provided you also set sequential="0" in the API call because of the change in the default behaviour of Civi 4.4.x

My first thought was to just edit the wiki page, making a reference to the issue around sequential and replacing "search" with "get" (assuming "search" was either an artifact from a previous version of the API, or just plain wrong), but then I got cold feet in case it was in fact an acceptable method that we just weren't using right.

I'm happy to make the edit - provided someone in the know can greenlight it.