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Hi all, new to civicrm but I'm trying to find a way to create forms on the frontend of joomla to draw data from civicrm. However any profile I am creating then linking the html snippet for is not bringing back any data.. it just literally states the field I am trying to draw from. I know I'm missing something simple and as I said I'm new, so what is the next step after creating the profile to actually get the db data back?

Yeah data for everyone as a start and I can't even get that right for some reason. Tnx for the reading material there, will go through it and see what I can see.

ah okay, well it is a joomla front end. So I am creating the custom profile, then taking the html snippet and adding it directly to an article with a header. It looks like what was going wrong is basically the civicrm permissions after much messing around. So when logged in as administrator the fields are coming up correctly. So this begs the question, if you want a customised search to bring up specific data how does one do that? I tried the civicrm customised search option and then I can only link it to a "1" or "2" which have specific data on addresses and contribution amounts. That not very customisable . Is there a trick to doing that?

Usually the way to add a Civicrm profile to the Joomla front end is to add it as a menu item. When you add a new menu item, you need to click on the 'menu item tye' select button and then select civicrm, which will open a list of profile types.