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I noticed an issue when creating custom fields via api which is not easy to work around. in my case -- I have a module that will be installed on multiple sites and which creates a series of custom fields on install. so I have a lovely array to map out the creation of the custom data set and fields. and I can cycle through and create them no problem.

the issue is that while I can pass a "name" param to the custom data set/group and it will be preserved, passing a "name" param when creating the custom field does nothing -- the name is auto-generated based on the label value.

that's problematic because I often want to reference the created fields using my master array, or if I'm doing work with the fields, want to have a reliable name to reference them by. I suppose I could run my original label value through the function that auto-generates the custom field name, but that's kind of a lousy way to handle things.

any known workarounds? or interest in allowing the name to be passed?

seems like a bug in the BAO code. wanna file an issue and a patch

lobo

AND a test had already been done!