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Creating new contact with address via API
July 04, 2014, 05:33:43 am
I'm trying to create a new individual with an address via the php API.

The API explorer for Contact Create shows address fields, but my attempts to specify address fields seem to be ignored although the contact is created. Is it possible to create the address directly?  (If not, why do these show as available fields in the API?)

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Re: Creating new contact with address via API
July 18, 2014, 01:20:48 am
Try doing a second API call, to Address Create, passing the contact ID of your newly created contact as the contact_id parameter.
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Re: Creating new contact with address via API
July 18, 2014, 04:53:39 am
you can chain the api calls, put an extra params['api_address_create'] = array (street and stuff)

it takes care of assiging the contact_id directly
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Re: Creating new contact with address via API
July 22, 2014, 09:37:53 am
Thanks - chaining solved my problem.
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