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lcdweb:
Just chiming in re: the blog post:
http://civicrm.org/node/285

YES -- I definitely agree with the thrust of the post, and find the 2.0 functionality to be improved. I have underused the sidebar search simply because I found the way it filled content to be frustrating at times.

-Brian

Dave Greenberg:
Brian - thx for chiming in. It really helps when folks let us know what aspects of the user experience need tweaking :-)

speleo:
I've not found a problem with the autocomplete text but then I've only got under 2000 contacts. I suspect for large db it becomes an issue.

From a usability point of view I often have to view the table of found contacts and then click on the contact to view the detail. This adds additional clicks and screen refreshes. An alternative approach presenting two buttons [ Listings ]  [ View Contact ] was discussed here http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,1648.0.html.

Searched the issue tracker for this enhancement and I couldn't find it. Have therefore added it as 2622 http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-2622

xavier:
Hi,

I had a almost working solution on 1.9, but the latest version of dojo doesn't work with it anymore, and I didn't find a way to extract the id of the contact as retrieved by the autocomplete feature.

I didn't investigate more than that (so far, I found dojo rather poor on the doc side), and I've been trying to do too many things on civi lately, but I still think that's a good idea ;)

X+

Dave Greenberg:
Adding a "View Contact" (directly) option to the Quick Search is on the issue queue for 2.1:
http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-2622

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