From 6ce097e8cbed152c457341c84624825822e3c354 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Justin Freeman <justin@agileware.com.au>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 12:19:43 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] CIVICRM-230 CRM-17040 Import Contributions using External Ids
 causes soft credit to be wrongly associated

---
 CRM/Utils/DeprecatedUtils.php | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CRM/Utils/DeprecatedUtils.php b/CRM/Utils/DeprecatedUtils.php
index 934a175d1f..d720fb1ffe 100644
--- a/CRM/Utils/DeprecatedUtils.php
+++ b/CRM/Utils/DeprecatedUtils.php
@@ -484,7 +484,9 @@ function _civicrm_api3_deprecated_check_contact_dedupe($params) {
     if ($field == NULL || $field === '') {
       continue;
     }
-    if (is_array($field)) {
+    // CRM-17040, Considering only primary contact when importing contributions. So contribution inserts into primary contact
+    // instead of soft credit contact.
+    if (is_array($field) && $key != "soft_credit") {
       foreach ($field as $value) {
         $break = FALSE;
         if (is_array($value)) {
-- 
2.25.1