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Advanced Search-"Display Results" Contribution list should show latest not first
August 17, 2011, 12:33:40 pm
Hi,
We love the newish "Display Results as" function in advanced search. 

We would like to find the latest contribution from the a group of individuals, but we're finding that it seems to only show the first contribution. The same is true, by the way, for activities and event participation.  We think it would be more functional to show the latest contribution, activity or event participation. 

What are other people using this for?  Does someone have a use case for only showing the first contribution/activity/event participation?

Taking it further, if there is a case for both, what can we do to get an option to show the latest one of these types?

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Re: Advanced Search-"Display Results" Contribution list should show latest not first
August 17, 2011, 01:37:53 pm

I just checked on civicrm.org (where we have a fair number of contributions) and it shows all contributions (and not just the first/last one)

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Re: Advanced Search-"Display Results" Contribution list should show latest not first
August 17, 2011, 03:54:45 pm
hmmm, did you select a group?  If we do that on one of the PowerBase sites (and the civicCRM demo site - I just tested it there) and select "Display Results as" Contribution you get a list with one contribution per individual.  This is cool, from my point of view, because I want something LIKE that.  I wrote earlier that I thought it was the oldest one. Now I'm not so sure.  The date of the contribution seems more random than that. 

What we would like is the latest contribution, or event participation record, or activity to appear.

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Re: Advanced Search-"Display Results" Contribution list should show latest not first
August 17, 2011, 08:28:10 pm

yep, did not select a group :(

IMO, the right behavior should be to "return all contributions / activities of the contacts from that group who satisfy the criteria"

Returning the first / last / random does not seem right or complete (unless we add another option to specifically address this)

Might be good if you can convince jamie (or other PTP developers) to investigate the above and work on the above bug. We could potentially do it during the code sprint.

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Re: Advanced Search-"Display Results" Contribution list should show latest not first
August 18, 2011, 03:50:45 am
I agree that the current output is a bit unexpected. It just happens to fulfill a need we have right now. I'll take it up with Jamie and Alice.
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