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Custom Field Alias
August 12, 2014, 07:33:11 am
Hi Everyone:

There's a way to create some kind of alias to work with custom fields?
Everytime I need to wrote code to save a custom field, it's something like custom_10. I need to keep some kind of dictionary in every installation, to make sure that custom_x = the_field_i_need
Something I can do?

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Re: Custom Field Alias
August 12, 2014, 01:57:48 pm
There's some discussion about using the CustomValue API to set fields based on their name instead of their ID -- http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=20564.0

FWIW, it would be possible to write a "wrapper" ( http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/hook_civicrm_apiWrappers ) for normal APIs which translates between "custom_123" and something nicer. However, that may be a bigger project than you're looking for.
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