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When using the CiviCRM API to make a field primary, other fields in the set do not have the 'is_primary' flag removed. This results in multiple 'primary' fields.

Eg: Address A is primary. The setvalue API call is used to set is_primary on Address B. Now addresses A and B both have 'is_primary'.

Is this the desired behaviour?

I can see that setvalue is intended to be quite a low level function, so you might not expect it to unset is_primary on other fields in the set. But if this is the desired behaviour we should probably document it.

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There are lots of problems with the setvalue api. This is a good example of why everyone should stop using it.

The plan is to deprecate setvalue soon and remove it in a future version. See https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-16643

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  • Sounds good, I've updated the documentation page.
    – John
    Commented Jul 1, 2015 at 9:40

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