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Limit search to ID and Name
November 04, 2012, 02:38:01 pm
Hi, is there a way to limit the search to only ID and Name of people?

Currently "full-text search" shows: "Contacts, Activities, Contributions, Memberships" in the dropdown.

Using Drupal 7 and latest CiviCRM

Thx

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Re: Limit search to ID and Name
November 04, 2012, 02:44:11 pm
Search Preferences are here:
<sitename>/civicrm/admin/setting/search?reset=1

Also found at: Administer menu -> Customize Data and Screens -> Search Preferences.

Unfortunately, contact ID isn't a choice there, though you CAN remove searching by e-mail.  Also note that this is for "Autocomplete Contact Search", not full-text search.  Full-text search is what it sounds like - it's all text, and thus not very performance efficient for day-to-day use.

For what you want, you can write a custom search.  I'm guessing that if you wrote a patch to add "contact ID" to the list of Autocomplete Contact Search options, it's likely to be accepted into core, so that's also an option if that's in your skillset.

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Re: Limit search to ID and Name
November 05, 2012, 10:41:47 am
Contact ID is coming as part of a workover of QuickSearch in 4.3 afaik
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Re: Limit search to ID and Name
November 05, 2012, 11:42:52 am
@gold, @pete: thanks!

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Re: Limit search to ID and Name
November 06, 2012, 06:22:19 am

Hello Sogen,
You can also Set up a profile that includes the Contact ID and Name

fields, Go to the previously mentioned search preferences and set it as your

default search profile.

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Re: Limit search to ID and Name
November 06, 2012, 07:21:48 am
Hi,

With this extension, you can type the id of the contact and enter, it will go to the contact summary.

https://github.com/TechToThePeople/eu.tttp.qlookup

Would like to have feedback on it, hopefully solves your need

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