Answers.Body: <p>The JIRA Issue for this feature <a href="https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-17795" rel="nofollow">https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-17795</a> reads</p>
  
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    <p>This adds support for joins in api.get operations to fetch information
    from more than one table.</p>
    
    <p>It also adds ACL enforcement to the Contact and related (email,
    address, phone, etc) apis for get, create &amp; delete actions.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The JIRA issue links to a couple of pull requests; <strong><a href="https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/7565" rel="nofollow">pull request 7565</a> includes a comment that has screen shots and descriptions (and one join example)</strong>.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Admittedly not a ton to go off of, but a start.
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Answers.Body: <p>4.7.1 explorer includes the Join options and is reasonably intuitive.  (4.7.0 did not.)</p>
  
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Body: <p>4.7 lists the ability to use joins for API queries, but I can't find anything in the docs or in the API Explorer.  Can someone point me to documentation or examples?</p>
  
Tags: <api><4.7>
Title: How do I use the joins feature of the new API
ThreadText: # How do I use the joins feature of the new API
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-02-13)
  
  4.7 lists the ability to use joins for API queries, but I can't find anything in the docs or in the API Explorer. Can someone point me to documentation or examples?
  
  **Tags:** api, 4.7
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-02-13. Score: 4
  
  The JIRA Issue for this feature <https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-17795> reads
  
  > This adds support for joins in api.get operations to fetch information
  > from more than one table.
  >
  > It also adds ACL enforcement to the Contact and related (email,
  > address, phone, etc) apis for get, create & delete actions.
  
  The JIRA issue links to a couple of pull requests; **[pull request 7565](https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/7565) includes a comment that has screen shots and descriptions (and one join example)**.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Admittedly not a ton to go off of, but a start.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_0 on 2016-02-15. Score: 1
  
  4.7.1 explorer includes the Join options and is reasonably intuitive. (4.7.0 did not.)
  
  
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