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I'm currently working on a project for an industry association that is requiring a front-end tag search for public users and running into a number of roadblocks trying to send content from the POST array into a profile listing and provide some custom ordering of the result list via ORDER CASE in the query. The user searching is being done directly from the frontpage of the client's website using Harvest's Chosen plugin to restructure a multiple select box that receives the tag list from the API.

While it makes sense not to expose UI driven access to the advanced and custom search, the full search capability needs to be available via the API with an option for profile listings to receive search parameters that are provided outside of Quickform. It seems that the buildForm hook might be able to provide an entry point for getting data into the form, but that still doesn't address being able to access the full functionality of the advanced search and the stored queries in the custom search. That needs to be addressed via API methods.

In the meantime...

Thoughts on how a non-CiviCRM form could invoke the Custom Search and trigger output of a public profile listing? _buildForm and _postProcess don't seem to be helping since I am technically not using a CiviCRM form at all, as I am using the force to go straight to the listing. Even if I was to enable the normal profile search, I would need to make sure the users never actually saw it.


See: http://mvs003-010.directrouter.com/~tmpaadm/targetprograms.com/ for the initial search, which submits to http://mvs003-010.directrouter.com/~tmpaadm/targetprograms.com/program-administrators

I need to:
- Have the input from the initial search filter that profile listing (currently showing standard profile listing)
- Have the listing results either ordered via ORDER Case criteria in my custom search -- OR -- have the listing order randomized so that all listed profiles get visibility.

Hi Xavier,

The source for the search is a smart group of organizations who have a certain active membership. I need to have public, frontend users (Joomla) choose keywords from a multiple-select box that is integrated in a module on the front page.

The search result should be a list of the matching organizations who have assigned tags that match any of the user selected tags -- OR -- fulfill a LIKE pattern match on organization_name.

Also, as results are a list of companies that the user would potentially like to get contacted by, the order of the result list needs to be adjusted using an order case where:

- all of the user selections are IN tag list
- one of the user selections IN tag list
- user selection is LIKE the organization_name

I've tried using the buildForm hook to set the tags as defaults, but it doesn't affect the result. I've also tried looking in the CRM_Page_Profile_Listings class, but I can't seem to find where the query for the contacts is actually being fired. I would have assumed it was in getProfileContact(), but I can't seem to dump or debug from that method at all.

you can do:

grep -r getProfileContact CRM

Seems like its only called from:

CRM/Contact/Form/Task/Map.php

which kinda makes sense, since mapping is the only 'task' we've integrated into profile. For that case, we really dont care about the order of ids since we display it on a map

lobo