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outinsun

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Custom Data Metadata API
August 17, 2009, 08:31:49 am
It appears that CiviCRM has an API for creating/delete custom groups and fields, but not for querying them. It would be great to be able to retrieve the details of existing custom group and field definitions. Does such a thing exist?

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Re: Custom Data Metadata API
August 17, 2009, 09:58:04 am

not via the API. There are some internal functions that we use to retrive this information. You can potentially use those or package it and expose as an API. if you do the latter, please publish your code so others may benefit

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Re: Custom Data Metadata API
August 17, 2009, 11:58:19 am
Quote from: Donald Lobo on August 17, 2009, 09:58:04 am

not via the API. There are some internal functions that we use to retrive this information. You can potentially use those or package it and expose as an API. if you do the latter, please publish your code so others may benefit

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Can you point me to the internal functions? We will happily make an API wrapper around them available to others.

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Re: Custom Data Metadata API
August 17, 2009, 01:21:21 pm

CRM/Core/BAO/CustomGroup.php, function getTree, function getGroupDetail

that code has not been revisited in a long long time. so its got quite a bit of legacy and is fairly complicated (IMO)

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