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Problem: my customer is implementing CiviCRM, and have about 35000 contacts in the DB. They will use activities (and cases) fairly extensively to plan colleagues. In the core functionality autocomplete is used on the template CRM/Activity/Form/Activity.tpl for assignee_contact_id and for target_contact_id like so:
    var sourceDataUrl = "{/literal}{$dataUrl}{literal}";
    var tokenDataUrl  = "{/literal}{$tokenUrl}{literal}";
    var hintText = "{/literal}{ts}Type in a partial or complete name of an existing contact.{/ts}{literal}";
    cj( "#target_contact_id"  ).tokenInput( tokenDataUrl, { prePopulate: target_contact,   classes: tokenClass, hintText: hintText });
    cj( "#assignee_contact_id").tokenInput( tokenDataUrl, { prePopulate: assignee_contact, classes: tokenClass, hintText: hintText });
    cj( 'ul.token-input-list-facebook, div.token-input-dropdown-facebook' ).css( 'width', '450px' );
    cj('#source_contact_id').autocomplete( sourceDataUrl, { width : 180, selectFirst : false, hintText: hintText, matchContains: true, minChars: 1
                                }).result( function(event, data, formatted) { cj( "#source_contact_qid" ).val( data[1] );
                                }).bind( 'click', function( ) { cj( "#source_contact_qid" ).val(''); });
    });

I am trying to replace the autocomplete for assignee_contact_id by commenting out the line
    cj( "#assignee_contact_id").tokenInput( tokenDataUrl, { prePopulate: assignee_contact, classes: tokenClass, hintText: hintText });

and adding:
    <script type="text/javascript">

 jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
    $('#assignee_contact_id').autocomplete(
      "/civicrm/ajax/rest&json=1&fnName=civicrm/contact/search&group=44",
    {
     dataType:"json",
     extraParams:{sort_name:function () {return $("#assignee_contact_id").val();}},
     formatItem: function(data,i,max,value,term){ return value;},
     parse: function(data){
         var acd = new Array();
         for(cid in data){
           acd.push({ data:data[cid], value:data[cid].sort_name, result:data[cid].sort_name });
         }
         return acd;
     },
       width: 180,
       delay:50,
       max:200,
       mustMatch: true,
       autoFill:true,
       selectFirst: true
   )};
 )};

 </script>

but no luck.......help much appreciated?

Thanks! I will have a play with that, and if that fails go through the hook. I figured I could do hooks but thought it was high time I had a play with jQuery and all that sort of magic stuff :-)

i'm more of a hook person myself, and have some code where these two autocomplete fields are run through the contactlist hook for modification. if you prefer that i can post it.

autocomplete_field hook is used on these as well? might be useful indeed.

X+

@erik, pretty sure this code reminds me something I shared . I'm pretty sure I wrote a jquery plugin to do a crmAutocomplete, might be worthwhile having a look one of these days...

unless there's an undocumented hook, i believe Xavier is referring to:
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/CiviCRM+hook+specification#CiviCRMhookspecification-hookcivicrmcontactListQuery

which is not called on the activity form page query.

to add the hook to this, modify: CRM/Contact/Page/AJAX.php

add the following in two places, around line 650 (before the dao execute query statement) and before the next dao/executequery a few lines later (in the else clause)

              // send query to hook to be modified if needed
              require_once 'CRM/Utils/Hook.php';
              CRM_Utils_Hook::contactListQuery( $query,
                                               $name,
                                               CRM_Utils_Array::value( 'context', $_GET ),
                                               CRM_Utils_Array::value( 'cid', $_GET ) );

kurund had wanted to restructure some of those ajax queries.
so yes -- it should be in core. but i think he wanted to do some additional general cleanup rather than just drop in the hook call. but he is aware of it.

this hook was originally intended for use with the autocomplete custom fields. since the activity form fields we're talking about are not actually custom fields, one could argue this isn't technically what you'd expect to use. personally i think it makes sense to have a common hook that can modify all autocomplete contact fields, regardless of whether its custom or core.

i've had a number of clients that want to do what you're doing -- restrict activity assignee and also case role assignment to a "staff" group. so i think there's value in a more permanent solution for calling the hook.

personally i think it makes sense to have a common hook that can modify all autocomplete contact fields, regardless of whether its custom or core.

I agree w/ Brian on that, and would vote for adding that functionality w/o waiting for code restructure. Brian, wanna file an issue + patch?