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Just thought to share an idea that I came up with and got some help with from the good folk at http://www.communitybuilders.com.au.

The idea was to have a keyword bookmark in firefox to search for a contact in civi.

The resultant url was:
http://www.CIVISITE.COM/index.php?q=civicrm/contact/search/custom&csid=15&reset=1&force=1&text=%s

Thus with this keyword bookmark enabled (I used 'civi' as the keyword) I can type 'civi smith' in the address bar and a page will come up listing all smiths in my database. Useful when dealing with incoming phonecalls.

with a bit of javascript, the keyword url will default to the search page if no search term is given

javascript:if('%s')%20location.href='http://www.CIVISITE.COM/index.php?q=civicrm/contact/search/custom&csid=15&reset=1&force=1&text=%s';else%20location.href='http://www.CIVISITE.COM/civicrm/contact/search&reset=1';

Notes:

• You need to be logged in for this to work
• Don't forget to put your site into the URL, twice in the second version
• If searching for more than one word, use the following syntax: lastname,firstname
• This integrates nicely into launchy / quicksilver etc

Done, http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC32/Search+CiviCRM+via+Keyword+Bookmarks
That was my first ever wiki post, so feel free to massage it into a more appropriate style and add further explanation.

Cool, thanks for sharing.

We "solved" the same issue slightly differently: we have a jabber  bot that is plugged on civicrm (using the api). if you ask the bot for any name, it returns the contacts that matches (up to 20).

For those that did attend one of my training or civicon, i'm referring to miss moneypenny.

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