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Hello all,

This function doesn't appear to be updating the custom data for me, despite not throwing errors.

Should it work in v2.x?

Debugging through when submitting shows CiviCRM itself doesn't appear to use this function, and it almost looks like we should be using CRM_Activity_BAO_Activity::create directly and it doing like contact does and updating if there is an id, but I'm not sure.

Can someone clarify what is the correct way to update custom data with CiviCRM 2/

TIA

Hmm I dont think thats it.

I was updating a date, but i've changed that to updating a numeric field, and still have the same issue.

The patches referenced seem to be about dates & contacts, and converting them using the mysql function, but i'm only updating an activity and not necessarily a date.

The code is (with hardcoded values until it works):

    $activity['contact_id'] = $form_values['uid'];
    $activity['id'] = $form_values['appid'];
    $activity['activity_type_id'] = 10;
    $activity['activity_date_time'] = date('YmdHis');

    // Update end date
    //$activity['custom_10'] = '20081007';

    // Update amount owing
    $activity['custom_9'] = '10000';

    // Start -- Lifted straight from CiviCRM
    $custom_data = array( );

    foreach ( $activity as $key => $value ) {
      if ($custom_field_id = CRM_Core_BAO_CustomField::getKeyID($key)) {
        CRM_Core_BAO_CustomField::formatCustomField( $custom_field_id, $custom_data, $value, 'Activity', NULL, $form_values['appid']);
      }
    }

    if (! empty($custom_data) ) {
      $activity['custom'] = $custom_data;
    }

    require_once('api/v2/Activity.php');
    $activity = civicrm_activity_update($activity);

Any other ideas?

I tested the following code on trunk (2.1)

<?php

$params = array( 'source_contact_id' => 102,
                 'target_contact_id' => 102,
                 'assignee_contact_id' => 102,
                 'activity_type_id' => 1,
                 'subject' => 'Foo Bar',
                 'activity_date_time' => '20030120000000',
                 'custom_3'   => 'foo',
                 'custom_4'     => '20030120000000' );

require_once '../civicrm.config.php';
require_once 'api/v2/Activity.php';
$result = civicrm_activity_create( $params );
CRM_Core_Error::debug( 'r', $result );


It worked as expected (3 is a text field and 4 is a date field)

I also tested it with 2.0 and unforunately it did not work . Since you have a workaround, i'll avoid trying to figure out why it does not work in 2.0. I suspect the issue which i mentioned previously also affects the code. There might be a few other bugs in 2.0 with this also

lobo