Questions tagged [chaining]
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Best (api4) way to chain save a contact so that the email updates, without creating a new one?
Using civicrm api4, what's the best way to chain save a contact so that the email updates, without creating a new one?
For example, I want to update this existing contact:
entity: Contact, action: get,...
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Create Case using API via REST - no "Open Case" activity created
I'm using the REST interface and the create case API to create a new case. The case is created, but no activities. In particular, no "Open Case" activity is created as I would have expected. No entry ...
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Chaining Participants creation using REST API
I'm trying to create an event and chain the participants creation using the REST API from python. My attempt goes like this:
import requests
params = {
"key": "key",
"api_key": "apikey",
"json": ...
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condition on count from chained api call
I am trying to use the api to get all contacts without an address with locationtype billing. For this I use the contact get api, and do a chained address get call. Is there a way to put a condition on ...
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What is the join logic when using API chaining with action = get?
I read about API chaining and I'm using it with get actions to learn more about how it works. I'm confused by the inconsistent behavior of the following two API calls:
CRM.api3('participant', 'get', ...
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How to update ContentType Label through API chaining?
I try to relabel Organization as "Entity":
$result = civicrm_api3('ContactType', 'create', array(
'label' => "Entity",
'api.ContactType.get' => array('name' => "Organization"),
));
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Can I chain API calls through drush?
API chaining works well in Javascript and PHP. For example, I can retrieve a contact's email addresses using this code generated by the API Explorer:
Php
$result = civicrm_api3('Contact', 'getsingle'...
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Alias for chained API calls?
I have a query in which I need to chain api.Contact.getsingle twice, given that the entity I'm querying is linked to two different contacts for which I need to fetch the data.
The problem is that, ...
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Chain API call cascade, pass second value as third call argument, "id is not a valid integer"
While making a cascade API call, a roadblock has been hit, here's a code:
$result = civicrm_api3('Contact', 'get', array(
'sequential' => 1,
'return' => "id",
'id' => array('IN' => ...
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How can I find contacts based on both custom data and address via the API?
For the Electoral API extension, I want to write a scheduled job to look up legislative data for everyone who a) has a geocode, and b) doesn't already have legislative data (which is stored in a multi-...
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CiviCRM API with Custom Data mixed with Standard Entities
I'm using CiviCRM 4.6 with the new API editor.
I'm attempting to chain a bunch of queries together, which provide cases for a client within a period, along with the linked contact, along with custom ...
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How to debug chained API calls
How can I get back a dump of the full param array when a chained api call fails, so that I can see what values are coming back from the previous call and going into the chained call (and thus better ...
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How to use API chaining to create a contact and a relationship
I've read all the docs I could find, the code examples, the 4.6 explorer, but I'm not grasping one piece. Below is code to create a new adult contact (via profile submit, to get some extra validation ...
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