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might be easier if the developers get on the forums / irc and ask questions, will make things a lot more efficient

i would use the call to

CRM_Contact_BAO_GroupContactCache::load

so that the entries are available in the cache and use that in your views query

lobo

I'm not sure about the process, but just for anyone reading here, we did develop this and it is functioning on our Drupal7 site running 4.3. Afaik its being added to the latest version 4.4.x  by the developers.

Hmm.... sorry to see that this still hasn't been fixed as of 4.4.5. Maybe this is because of a flaw in the CiviCRM API?

As far as I understand it, you can't just request the contacts in a particular group, because CiviCRM can't be trusted to actually give you the right answer. It all depends on which type of group you're querying. If the request happens to be for a smart group, it will answer but give you bad data. It seems to me that extensions (and modules in this case), shouldn't have to do any special coding to support smart groups, but the API should handle the calls regardless of which type of group is being referenced. Is that a realistic goal? (Or maybe this isn't an API thing, it's a DB thing, in which case, why can't we do stuff like this using the API?)

-Joseph

Did this ever get into the current version? Is filtering by a Smart Group in a View going to be accurate?