Author Topic: Can I create a URL to perform a search with pre-defined criteria? (Read 797 times)

cscooper · February 08, 2012, 07:42:43 pm

I would like to give my users an easy link that does a search with a set of pre-defined criteria - for example, find all contacts in a particular group. To say it another way, when I manually do an advanced search and click on Search, it sends my search criteria as POST values, I'd like to do a search using QUERY values in the URL.

I realize my users can bring up the advanced search screen and do this in only a few mouse clicks, but I'd rather make this as fool-proof as possible. I could also create my own HTML page that created the necessary POST values, but I'm hoping to avoid the intermediate step.

Thanks,
Chris

Dave Greenberg · February 09, 2012, 04:33:28 pm

Chris - As far as I know the built-in Find Contacts and Advanced Search forms do not yet support this (although it's just been added for the 4.2 release for a limited set of advanced search Mailing related criteria).

HOWEVER, you can create a profile-based search interface which does allow you to pass in criteria (and control search result columns etc.). This may work well for your use cases. You can see a simple example on the demo. Log in to:

http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/

Then navigate to:
http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/profile?reset=1&gid=1&force=1&group=2

I've passed in a group.id value in this case, but you can pass in most (or all?) fields using fieldName=value pattern. You can also hide the search form if you want (&search=0), and include link to the back-office contact summary (profile advanced settings).

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC41/Linking+Profiles (Profile Search and Listings section).

Donald Lobo · February 09, 2012, 05:47:00 pm

Asuming your users have access to the search screens of civicrm, an alternative approach might be:

1. Save your search as a smart group

2. Goto manage contacts, click on contacts for that smart group

3. publish that link under a civicrm menu / drupal block etc

lobo

cscooper · February 11, 2012, 07:07:05 am

Excellent! Thanks!

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