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Hello.

I have some fields, value of which is controlled by custom hook on update (two of them are char - I use them for alphabetical directory of contacts with views, another - numeric - result of summation).

I've noticed the following behaviour on importing:

I'm importing custom field data on all a number of contacts in my database from a csv with three fields. For half of the contacts those fields are empty, and they are not updated. Other (updated) contacts loose values in the php-filled fields - result of summation drops to 0, characters drop to empty string. Non-updated contacts do not loose the information in those php-controlled fields.

I've implemented those php updates in two functions - one of them is

mymodule_civicrm_custom where I process data from custom fields,

and

mymodule_civicrm_post where I process data from the last name - to capture first letter, as last name is not available inside mymodule_civicrm_custom.


Could this be caused by import script? I cannot replicate this in sandbox as I do not have a relevant access...

And would it be possible to run those php-update scripts as a cron job somehow?

Regards,
Danila

Hello, Lobo.

I've solved this. In some cases hook_civicrm_post is called with $objectRef containing a lot uninitialized fields. I did not catch those cases, and as a result empty strings got into my custom php-controlled code.

I now filter out these situations using if ( isset ($objectRef->last_name)) {

Regards,
Danila