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We need to display Group Description on the front-end on Joomla based site. I tried tweaking Profile/Group settings to no avail.

my questions are:

1) Can I display a Group's Description within a Profile (public front-end, non-editable, visible to all)
2) Is there a URL for simply displaying a Group and its description?
 

OK, I see. Could you tell me if the following scenario is doable at all with hooks and customized template? (before I hit the learning curve of hooks

We need a page(s) that displays:

a) Group Name
b) Group's Description
c) a table of individuals similar to this (profile-view): http://ebhv.alloraconsulting.com/index.php?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/profile&search=0&gid=10

I can't figure out how to achieve this with built-in functionality of CiviCRM


PS Also, is there an "HTML Form snippet" that display a View-only Profile instead of the one for entering data?

 

Ok, thanks ! I'm more than familiar with php/mysql Just wanted to make sure I'm going in the right direction with this before I pour much time into learning hooks at the expense of my client.

>a view only profile is basically just html code.

Well, static HTML won't do as it needs to be dynamic since the content of the database changes (eg a phone number changes for some person and view-only profile needs to pull this new info from the database).

My last question, if you would: can I enable HTML format for Group description?

Thanks a lot for your time, Donald!

Lobo, it was pointed out to me that a simpler approach is to use Profile Pre-Post blurb instead of Group description. It already has HTML enabled which is exactly what I need.

The problem of course is that it's not displayed on the front-end Profile Search view.

I created a custom template structure, CRM/common/joomla.tpl but I couldn't figure out how to pull the Pre_post info into this template. It seems to be referenced as "$help_pre" in Edit / Create forms, right? Can you point me in the right direction?