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In our implementation, we have a custom field 'organizer' (custom_56) on events, which is a contact reference. I tried to use the API to get a contact, and (using chaining) all events that have this contact as organizer.

I tried the following:

    $result = civicrm_api3('Contact', 'get', array(
    'sequential' => 1,
    'external_identifier' => "leg/0403",
    'api.Event.get' => array('custom_56_id' => "\$value.id"),
    ));
It did not work, I got all events in api.event.get. I tried with 'custom_56' (without _id) as well, it did not work either.

I know I can retrieve a contact together with all its participants, but that is not what I want. I want a contact with all the events that reference this contact in the custom field.

But I am not sure whether api chaining is supposed to work with custom fields. I couldn't find it in the documentation, maybe one of you can help me out.

I just found out that more generally searching events on custom fields using the API does not work. I guess the problem I am describing here is a special case of that problem.

I created an issue on the issue tracker: https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-16036