Api V8 adds email address 2x to contact after setting the relationship

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Hi,

I’m trying to set an (primary) email address on a contact following the solution provided in [How to add an email to a contact module using the v8 API?] and it seems that the email address gets linked 2 times to the contact. It gets linked as the primary address and also as a normal address. Is there a way that I can only set the primary email address of a contact? Do I need to use a special relationship name when creating the link and where can I find these relationship names as this is not very well documented. Any help is highly appreciated.

Best regards,
Davy

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Hi,
I’m putting this up here for people having the same issue.

I’ve accidently stumbled upon the solution (at least part of it) by checking the bugs on github:
https://github.com/salesagility/SuiteCRM/issues/8687

Apparently you can simply add an email1 attribute in your post or patch to change the primary email address of a contact. Also make sure that the email address that you supply complies with the email address format allowed for SuiteCRM otherwise it will not set the email address.

Best regards,
Davy

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