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Hi there,

Is it possible to pass in a custom field as a criteria for the contact_get api. I have been playing with the example in Xavier's blog and had some success but I'm not sure if I can pass in a custom field - and if so what the format is. Using a whole swag of smart groups isn't practical for one of the scenarios I am looking at.

{crmAPI entity='contact' action="search" var="contacts" rowCount="10" contact_type="Individual" custom_15="1" group="26" json="1" return ="sort_name, custom_15, group"}
<ul>
{foreach from=$contacts item=contact}
<li id="contact_{$contact.contact_id}">{$contact.sort_name}</li>
<li id="group">{$contact.custom_15}</li>

{/foreach}
</ul>

NB - I do get this error on my 3.0 test site with the above code -even if I take out the references to custom_15 and the rather optimistic reference to json="1" ( I was hopeful I might be able to get it back in that format if I passed that in)

So, that's the answer to the 'NB'? But is there an answer to the original question?

OK - you mean post on the wiki?  - Am I correct about the format::

custom_15

I've mostly been testing them using the url method - i.e. the rest call but can try that

and tag, and...

As you're realised, that's a dumb wrapper around the api, whatever feature the api provides, crmAPI provides too.

I personally find easier to test using the REST wrapper:

http://example.org/civicrm/ajax/rest?fnName=civicrm/contact/search&group=2&contact_type=Individual&return[sort_name]=1&group=7&custom_42=douglas&rowCount=200&country=1134

See what I get that way