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Customizing Quick Search box
August 10, 2010, 06:55:54 pm
I have looked in the wikis and forums thinking I might find the answer to this with no luck.  I would like extend the Quick Search to be able search by an id number in addition to name/email.

I am still familiarizing myself with the structure of the code in Civi and can't figure out how and where I could customize the quick search.  Consider a custom field that is a unique identifier for some members (or for simplicity consider the id column of the contact table).  How might the Quick Search be extended so that a user could type in an id number and retrieve the matching record?  I believe there is a json query to get the matches but I don't have a grasp on how complex a customization this would be if it is worth tackling at all.

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Re: Customizing Quick Search box
August 10, 2010, 07:08:51 pm
you can do it with a hook:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC32/CiviCRM+hook+specification#CiviCRMhookspecification-hookcivicrmcontactListQuery

use $context=='navigation'
to isolate that instance of the contact search field
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Re: Customizing Quick Search box
August 10, 2010, 08:21:17 pm
Brilliant!  Thanks for the lead on the $context param!
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