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"New Smart Group" doesn't allow creating mailing list from Find Participants
May 14, 2013, 03:51:18 pm
When using the "Find Participants" search (http://sandbox.drupal.civicrm.org/civicrm/event/search), the "New Smart Group" option doesn't allow you to specify that it's a mailing list.

I would have filed a bug for this, but after discussing with my client, it made me wonder - now that Advanced Search can output results as Participants, Memberships, etc., maybe it's time to refactor so that there's no longer a separate Participant Search?  Instead, when you select "Find Participants", instead it can display the Advanced Search, but a) hiding all the search fields except those under "Event", and b) setting the "Display Results As" to Participants?

I think that if we took this approach, we could get rid of a lot of code that became redundant when we added the ability to display Advanced Search results as something other than contacts.  What do others think?
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Re: "New Smart Group" doesn't allow creating mailing list from Find Participants
May 14, 2013, 04:08:19 pm
I love the idea.

However, normal human beings can find their way in the participant search and, for instance, add a hook to inject a new column to display an extra custom field in the result or hide the price if all the participants are on free events or force to list more than 50 and add a js sort+filter or use a .extra.tpl to add a "click on the status to ajax set to attended" ...

Doing the same kind of customisation on the top of advanced search? Not saying that it's not possible, but likely harder and the chances of side effect of screwing up the advanced search when its list something else than participants is not negligible.


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Re: "New Smart Group" doesn't allow creating mailing list from Find Participants
May 14, 2013, 04:10:14 pm

Note that they share a lot of the code. basically advanced search just calls the participant search code and templates in that mode

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