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I'm looking for a way to expose certain custom searches to anonymous users and denying access to other searches. Is there even a drupal or civi access permission associated with custom searches. All I have noticed is that giving anonymous users to access civi content through drupal permissions gives them access to /civicrm/contact/search/custom/list?reset=1

My initial thoughts are to use civi access to create ACL roles for everyone that would expose only the data I want them to be able to see from the public custom search and then add some code to the other custom searches to check for a specific drupal permission that I could add in somewhere.

Does this make sense to do it this way, or is there a more sensible and straight forward way to do this?

regards.

btw. the site I am working on uses civi version 2.2.5

I would love to upgrade their site to the newest version except they have quite a bit of custom qcubed code that hooks in to their current civi install. This makes it almost impossible to upgrade at the moment. I don't know why it was done this way, but it is my guess that the original developers didn't know drupal or civi very well. It will take some time to go through those thousands of lines of custom code and break it down into something more sensible.

In the meantime I need a way to keep their site and info secure, while expose only what is needed.

What I a getting from your reply Lobo is that there isn't a configurable way to do this using custom searches.

thanks, I'll check out the CiviReport functionality.

Views might be able to be used for the search, but I also need the functionality to send all the contacts returned an email, and the ability to select from several customized emails.