Views 3 and Groups from CiviCRM

[Donald Lobo]

might be easier if the developers get on the forums / irc and ask questions, will make things a lot more efficient

i would use the call to

Code: [Select]

CRM_Contact_BAO_GroupContactCache::load

so that the entries are available in the cache and use that in your views query

lobo

[sushant]

Here is the Issue with patch :

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-13835

S.

[Lionsharz]

I'm not sure about the process, but just for anyone reading here, we did develop this and it is functioning on our Drupal7 site running 4.3. Afaik its being added to the latest version 4.4.x  by the developers.

[petednz]

Thanks Mr L (neil?)

Just to be clear - you are talking about the patch on the jira ticket referenced in the post above by Sushant?

[jtbayly]

Hmm.... sorry to see that this still hasn't been fixed as of 4.4.5. Maybe this is because of a flaw in the CiviCRM API?

As far as I understand it, you can't just request the contacts in a particular group, because CiviCRM can't be trusted to actually give you the right answer. It all depends on which type of group you're querying. If the request happens to be for a smart group, it will answer but give you bad data. It seems to me that extensions (and modules in this case), shouldn't have to do any special coding to support smart groups, but the API should handle the calls regardless of which type of group is being referenced. Is that a realistic goal? (Or maybe this isn't an API thing, it's a DB thing, in which case, why can't we do stuff like this using the API?)

-Joseph

[vishram74]

Hi.  Has there been any updates on this? 
We are trying to get this working in our version of Drupal 7 and CiviCRM 4.3.3.

[holmesg]

Did this ever get into the current version? Is filtering by a Smart Group in a View going to be accurate?

[petednz]

I don't think so. Would be great if someone with the coding skills could contribute this or commission us or others who have done a lot for the Views-Civi integration to get this sorted.