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First of all, hi people! Long time no see! I've been out for a while but I'm back, working with Ixiam, so happy to be back working with the CiviCRM community. 

There is something I need some advice with. I'm trying to create an activity through an API call and set the id of the user who created it. Something like:

$result = civicrm_api3('Activity', 'create', array(
  'sequential' => 1,
  'activity_type_id' => "Reminder Conversion",
  'api.ActivityContact.create' => array('contact_id' => 203, 'record_type_id' => 2),
));
That creates the activity properly, but it creates 2 records in civicrm_activity_contact with record_type_id = 2:

• One of them with 203 as the contact_id
• The other one with the id of the user I was logged with as its contact_id

The question is that it looks to me like there are two cases:

• We are allowed to set the creator of an activity. In witch case, it shouldn't have created the second record with the id of the user I was logged with.
• We are not supposed to be allowed to set the creator of an activity. In witch case, I guess the API call I wrote should raise an error.

What do you think about it? Is there another way to do what I'm trying?

Note: Because of the context, I need to create the activity contact while I create an activity, as a chained call. The context is similar to this alterApiParameters in CiviRules.

Oooook! Actually way cleaner! I knew about target and assignee but didn't know about the source magic field. Works perfectly!

Thanks!