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For our project we need to create several shortcut links which perform an Advanced Search with certain criteria and display the results through a profile.

On this page there's a description of how to form links to profile displays and pass in certain criteria:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/Configure+CiviCRM+Profile#ConfigureCiviCRMProfile-9.ProfileSearch%2FListings

I thought this was the answer, but it doesn't work for us for three reasons:

1) The resulting page lacks the Actions menu that you get when doing a true Advanced Search - we need that.

2) The "View" and "Edit" links on the resulting page take you to pages which only display the fields available in the profile used to format the results page. We need "View" and "Edit" to link to the full versions of these pages, as the true Advanced Search results page does.

3) In the resulting page, the contact names are not linked to the main contact view.

So, is there any way to create a URL which passes criteria and displays a "true" Advanced Search page with profile view?

Many thanks...

Thanks, Dave. I was afraid of that. Is there any way to achieve this programmatically? We have access to CiviCRM programming and customization expertise.

Andy:

Depends on how many name/value pairs you want to pass in "programmatically"

If its just a few (< 5) or so, the hack is relatively simple. If its more of them, you might need to generalize the hack

check CRM/Contact/Form/Search.php

we do it for a few variables which can be passed in via a GET or POST request. specifically _groupID and _ufGroupID. You can use those as examples to start with

You can get us on IRC if u need more help with this

lobo