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Use case :

You create a profile with only the fields your coworkers need to manage your contacts (they are moderate computer literate). You add a link to their menu, so they can use this profile to add a contact and search existing contacts with only the relevant fields. Unfortunately, they cannot "act" on search results provided by this profile, as there is no "-more actions-" dropdown menu in this profile like in the core search results.

The profile should allow to act on contacts like built-in search does. A checkbox could be added to the profile configuration screen, like

• Display the "action toolbar" for this profile's search results

Is this possible ? Sorry if it already on the todo, or worse, already possible ;-)

Yes, I'd like to customize the built-in search and advanced search forms. I wanted to use profiles, but it seems to be impossible at the moment. Do you have a suggestion on how to do this? I wanted to avoid modifying the template files and avoid hardcode html forms there.

Thank you in advance

Thanks for all the answers.

I think I will wait for 2.0, if work is done on this new feature "Allow Profile to override default templates (View, Search, Edit, Listings) specify a custom profile-specific templates."

(from http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviCRM+v2.0+(original+list) )

Else I'll dig in the custom templating option.