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hey folks,

i am struggling with making a search that will only show the fields of a custom group. i was very happy to realize that a profile search could do that (http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/profile?reset=1&gid=8 is an example) but saddened when i realized that that method would not give me access to the actions. and i really need actions.

in trying to go the custom search route i have not been able to figure out how to call custom fields and their options. in this post (http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=11228.0) lobo mentions the CRM_Core_BAO_CustomOption::getCustomOption function. but i have not been able to figure out how to use it.

first, i think, is the buildForm function in the custom search:

function buildForm( &$form ) {
        $primary_group = array('' => ts('- select group -')) + CRM_Core_BAO_CustomOption::getCustomOption( );
        $form->addElement('select', 'primarygroup_158', ts('Primary Group'), $primary_group);

    }

the above gets me nothing. a little help would be much appreciated.

or if you know how to give the profile search access to the actions, i would take that too

--josue

thanks for the reply.

in advanced search, what i am trying to avoid is the overwhelming scroll that ensues if you have lots of custom fields. i decided that the immediate workaround was to move the custom group to the top of the custom fields section. i will add to this a view, so that they can see the results. thx!

is it possible to include admin actions in a profile search? how hard would that be? having more custom search options was very exciting until i realized the limitations...