Author Topic: Creating contacts with id (Read 309 times)

huulbaek · October 21, 2014, 02:05:00 am

Hi!

I'm trying to create a lot of new contacts with the API - it's an import from our obsolete member database. Because I want the contact_id to match the id's in our financial system, I want to create them with the same id. However, that will only try to update an existing record, right?

Is there any way where I could get a create call working with an id - like in the parameters below? It throws an error but all is ok if I omit the id.

Code: [Select]

$params = array(
	'id' => $excel_id,
	'first_name' => $first_name,
	'last_name' => $last_name,
	'contact_type' => 'Individual',
	'street_address' => $full_address,
	'preffered_language' => 'da_DK',
	'custom_6' => $kommune,
);

Eileen · October 21, 2014, 02:07:04 am

If you want to keep old ids you need to create some dummy records via sql - which you can then alter via the import (& then at the end delete all the ones that still have your dummy values if you haven't done exactly the right ids)

huulbaek · October 21, 2014, 04:32:20 am

Thank you, Eileen, that worked out fine.

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