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Hi CiviCRM-community,

If you want to customize the behaviour of the 'quick search box' in the left corner of the navigation menu, you can do this by implementing hook_civicrm_contactListQuery. A lot of tutorials are available on the internet, including this post on the forums.

I guess that most of these howto's were written at the time that there were no 'radio buttons' in the quick search box. Today, if you click the quick search box, you can select the field(s) that should be searched in. Depending on your selection (name/e-mail, civicrm id, external id,...), a query is created.

Now if you implement hook_civicrm_contactListQuery, the search query will be replaced regardless of the selected field. The context parameter always equals 'navigation' if you fired the query from the quick search box.

What I want to achieve, is that when I enter some characters in the quick search box, the name, city and external ID of the contact is shown in the popup list of found contacts. I wonder how I can fix this, without breaking the field selection of the quick search.

Some options:

• Parsing the original query in hook_civicrm_contactListQuery to figure out what the user is searching for
• Changing the sort_name of contacts, so that it contains the information I want to be shown. Maybe I can keep this in sync implementing a number of hooks
• Maybe something else

Any suggestion is much appreciated.