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Searching for custom CiviEvent data
March 17, 2012, 02:48:08 pm
If I create custom data fields for a Event records, is there a place I can then search for those fields?

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Re: Searching for custom CiviEvent data
March 17, 2012, 06:10:25 pm

Not via the Civi UI (or at least i dont think so)

Might be able to do so via the views3 integration. Can u report back if that works

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Re: Searching for custom CiviEvent data
March 18, 2012, 10:36:33 am
I would love to if I had the skills!

I think Civi is a super useful tool and would like to improve upon many of its functions. But, alas, I do not (yet) possess the needed knowledge / skills to do so.

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Re: Searching for custom CiviEvent data
March 18, 2012, 12:30:31 pm
It's not so hard really. You could try if you want. First is to install Views for Drupal from here: http://drupal.org/project/views

and second is to follow these steps for integration: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC41/Views3+Integration
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Re: Searching for custom CiviEvent data
March 18, 2012, 01:36:01 pm

In addition to coding and adding/fixing features, there are lots of other ways to contribute back:

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Re: Searching for custom CiviEvent data
March 19, 2012, 07:33:37 am
Thanks for the encouragement and the suggestions! I will see what I can do. 

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Re: Searching for custom CiviEvent data
March 19, 2012, 01:02:55 pm
You should also be able to use CiviReports for this - check your report menu. If custom fields aren't showing then it's really trivial to make them show if you have access to the code
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Re: Searching for custom CiviEvent data
March 19, 2012, 01:22:43 pm
Yes, they can be seen in a report.

The thing is, we need clients/users to be able to search under certain event custom data... this is not possible with the reports or through the back end code.

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Re: Searching for custom CiviEvent data
March 19, 2012, 01:52:30 pm
So, you can't filter by custom data on your events report?
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Re: Searching for custom CiviEvent data
March 28, 2012, 11:18:07 am
No, it doesn't seem like you can.

It looks like the way to do it is to export the data into a spreadsheet...
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