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Wilma has relationship: is campaigner at organisation System Change Not Charity.

How can I get a list of individuals like Wilma and the organisations that they are campaigners for?

I've read the documentation but I can't figure out how I would join on relationship?

I tried this which I thought would at least give me the names of people with that campaigner relationship type, but it gives nothing.

  • Entity: Contact
  • Action: get
{                                                                                                                                                                                           
    "select": ["display_name"],                                                                                                                                                               
    "where": [                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
      ["relationships.relationship_type_id", "=", 15]                                                                                                                                          
    ],                                                                                                                                                                                        
    "limit": 25,                                                                                                                                                                              
    "checkPermissions": false                                                                                                                                                                 
}

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Not sure if this is what you're after but works for me; the 'join on' is a bit hidden in the 'Select' box.

CRM.api4('Relationship', 'get', {
  select: ["contact_a.display_name"],
  where: [["relationship_type_id", "=", 5]],
  limit: 25
}).then(function(relationships) {
  // do something with relationships array
}, function(failure) {
  // handle failure
})
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For the part about making your first-step example work, use 'contact_a.display_name' instead of display_name.

Also it's missing from your example but it would be 'Relationship', 'get', at the very beginning, so the whole thing, to also get the org, is

$relationships = civicrm_api4('Relationship', 'get', [
  'select' => [
    'contact_a.display_name', 'contact_b.display_name'
  ],
  'where' => [
    ['relationship_type_id', '=', 15],
  ],
  'checkPermissions' => false,
]);
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  • So are you saying I MUST do relationships from the relationships entity? Can't I start from contact, add relationship, add the related contact? Nov 13, 2019 at 14:43
  • I find the api is always the reverse for joins. You kind of work backwards. See also civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/28126/…. You could start from contact and write a procedural loop, but then it's not really a join.
    – Demerit
    Nov 13, 2019 at 14:43
  • Ok, so it it basically the case that APIv4 can do joins but only joins that are 1 deep? i.e. I can go Relationship to two contacts (and a relationship type); but I can't go contact → relationship → contact, because that's 2 deep. Or, for example, I couldn't get the phone number of the contact in your example (because that's relationship → contact → phone)? Nov 13, 2019 at 15:22
  • I don't know the answer. Maybe there's a syntax for it. Or maybe with chaining, but then I get the impression from the docs that chaining isn't saving db calls vs doing a loop, just two or three less lines of code than writing your own loop.
    – Demerit
    Nov 13, 2019 at 15:55

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