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I was getting some pointers from colemanw the other day in my quest to get the Quicksearch to forward to the advanced search page with the values prefilled if the user presses enter instead of just waiting for results to populate (and ideally it would have performed the search already when the advanced search page loads). I ran into a few problems and wondered if anyone had input.

You can see what I am working on here:

• Quick search branch on GitHub

This populates (for example) the external ID or phone field, but gives a fatal error for CiviCRM id (which seems to be because within searches, 'id' means 'profile id' and not 'civicrm id'). Anybody have advice on the two big issues remaining:

• Getting the ID field into the ID field on the advanced search page (or at least avoiding the fatal error)
• Getting the advanced search to automatically run

Thanks!

Thanks, Coleman!

I was initially trying to get it into the same click handler, but wasn't enough of a Javascript whiz to figure out how to tell it I was using the input wrapped by the .crm-quickSearchField class and not the wrapping element. I will keep at it and see if I can get it better optimized.

Would there be any reason not to change the name/id of the CiviCRM ID field on the advanced search page to 'contact_id' instead of 'id'?

L.

Well, I think the code is a little bit more optimized, though it still doesn't handle the 'contact_id' very well, and it doesn't auto submit the advanced search form.

What do you think? Any ideas for improvement?

L.