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I have an advanced search that I run based on activity. Works like a champ. I find all contacts with a given activity type and select "Print PDF Letter..." from the drop down which prints the letter I need perfectly. What I'm trying to do is find a way to sort based on when the activity was performed. If I change the display to Activity I can sort just like I want, but I can no longer print.

Is there a way to either sort by activity date on the contact display, or to print from activity display? Maybe some other way to skin this cat?

Thanks Lobo, this helped a ton. Got it working, here's what I did using this as a guide as well http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC33/How+to+Add+Actions+to+the+Contact+Search+Dropdown

I copied the files I needed into my Drupal site's files directory as per my configuration. Changed all the "Contact" to "Activity" where relevant. And added this code:

foreach ($form->_activityHolderIds as $item => $aid) {
      $activity = civicrm_api("Activity","get", array ('version' =>'3', 'id' =>$aid));
      $cid = $activity['values'][$aid]['source_contact_id'];
      $form->_contactIds[] = $cid;
    }
Needed that because Activity does not populate the contact ids that are needed to run the rest of the script. Not sure if there is an easier way or not, but this worked for me. Thanks again Lobo!