Author Topic: select values in civicrm_contact_add() (Read 1153 times)

kathykelley · December 10, 2008, 07:31:51 pm

I am new to civicrm and was planning to use the API. Should I be doing this? My client has a lot of custom fields and I want to assign values to them when I create contacts. I have some fields that are of type "select" and I cannot for the life of me get the value to take effect in the database. I figured out multiple select by creating an array. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Kurund Jalmi · December 11, 2008, 04:25:01 am

This example might help: http://fisheye.civicrm.org/browse/CiviCRM/trunk/tests/api/v2/ContactAddWithCustomData.test?r=15610

Kurund

kathykelley · December 11, 2008, 07:14:18 am

The code doesn't really help. All I want to know is how I set things up to assign a custom field a value that happens to be defined as type select. Do you know what I do? I know that in the case of multiple selelcts I created an array. Arrays don't seem to work for regular selects.

Kurund Jalmi · December 11, 2008, 07:40:10 am

Can you try passing following parameter to add function:

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array( 'first_name' => 'Demo',
'last_name' => 'User',
'custom_x' => 2 )

where 'x' is id of the field and 2 is the value.

HTh

Kurund

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