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Trying to do a contact form in WordPress, and failing on tiny little things. A Profile using the Notes field sends an e-mail that always attaches only the first Note on a record. Creating a custom field, the field gets overwritten every time a new form is filled out by the contact. The Contact Form 7 API plugin seems promising as I can get it to e-mail everyone, including a CiviCRM processing account, and include it as a note. However, then I can't get it to update/fill in other fields on the contact record. Documentation is a little weak, as it was a custom created plugin for a specific purpose and then released with the hopes that somebody would find it useful and take off with it. Has anyone got it working to "create or update" a contact and add an activity? The API call seems to point only towards doing one thing from a form and not being able to handle an either/or situation.

CiviCRM 4.7, Wordpress

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  • Yes, we did with the Contact Form 7 API (which we created for a specific customer as you mentioned :-))
    – ErikH - CiviCooP
    Commented Oct 3, 2016 at 6:07
  • @ErikH thanks to you and CiviCoop for sharing this integration, off-topic: just wanted to add as an alternative the Caldera Forms CiviCRM integration github.com/mecachisenros/caldera-forms-civicrm (it has a different purpose, ie is not meant to send data to another server/site, so if that's the intention then ignore this G H) it supports the entities mentioned among others, create/update Contacts, create Activities and also checksum support.
    – Andrei
    Commented Oct 3, 2016 at 19:04
  • @Andrei Thanks! Unfortunately, I was hoping to cross site this one. Bouncing isn't out of the question though, so I'll definitely keep it in mind. Here's to hoping that a tie-in to the API is on the road map, or an exporter like the Profile piece has.
    – G H
    Commented Oct 4, 2016 at 17:07

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Yes, we did with the Contact Form 7 API (which we created for a specific customer as you mentioned :-))

The Contact Form 7 API submits the form data with an API WpCivi Submit with a form type which links to the class that is called in CiviCRM. You can find the CiviCRM part of the customer extension we created here, hope that helps you on your way!

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  • thanks for the pointer. I had been there. My pea brain is missing something though. Is this extension a Civi Extension that goes beyond the WP plugins? So, I need the Contact Form 7 Plugin, the CF7-Civi Plugin, and this extension? I'll see what I can break on the dev machine.
    – G H
    Commented Oct 4, 2016 at 17:17
  • Rats. Getting an error on install. Says it can't find a directory that is there. Put it on the Github page.
    – G H
    Commented Oct 4, 2016 at 19:56

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