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I would like to display the results of an Advanced Search using a profile, but it does not appear to be displaying properly. The Advanced search results just include name and a "view, edit, more" column. The fields that i tried to include in the search aren't there, even when I select my profile in the "Search Views."

These fields include custom data fields that are in custom data sets which are used only for one contact sub-type. Possibly, is this where the problem lies? I notice that when I force the use of this profile in basic search by adding "?id=11" in the url, the resulting search results are also displaying like they do above. So I think its a problem with the profile I created.

Ideally, I would like to use the Search builder to select the records, and be able to display the results using a profile - any way to do this, easily?

By "create a simple profile group " do you mean, create a new profile? I did that, keeping it very simple, with only a few fields from the individual contact type. I am not sure if you mean this, or create a new group. Anyway, that didn't resolve it- the table headers were still missing. I'm afraid I will need a little more direction to take off and start testing/debugging this.

I would be interested in finding where this problem is, if I can get this a few other items worked out, CIVICrm will work well for us.

Hello Lobo,

Yes, I was able to reproduce this on the Civicrm drupal demo server.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create a profile. Check used for ... "search results" checkbox. Add fields, as many as you like. On the Demo Civicrm setup, I created one called "Simple profile - ST" that has fields, different fields, some custom data, some fields from individual (type), etc. I also repeated it with a "simpler profile" which includes only fields from Individual.

2. go to Search -> Advanced Search. Under "search views", select your view, choose some query parameters, and click search.

The results are returned, but not the field columns representing the profile you just created. Instead, just the default "List Name", along with view, edit, more> links.

I tried to find where this would be generated, perhaps ... civicrm/CRM/Profile/Page/View.php ; but I got lost pretty quickly. 

Yes, you are totally correct lobo. In order for the columns to show correctly, I did need to checkoff the 'results column selected'. In the visibility of each field I had not chosen the VISIBILITY t vlues that would allow this option to pop up .Those values for the profile field listing need to be set to : "Public Pages" or "Public Pages and Listings". It didn't even occur to me to alter this setting.

I definitely understand that access to view or edit profiles is granted via ACL, I just took the 'public pages and listings' at face value , and thought, "that doesn't apply to this situation", and excluded that visibility.

I was concerned about non-authenticated, or under-qualified , users being able to view contact details. But it appears this is taken care of the ACL  level.