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Hello,

I have set up several smart groups based on relationships between contacts. I used advanced search to get related contacts (like getting all employees of a particular organization). It works fine. Now I'm trying to create a smart group by fetching all related contacts (with a particular relationship type) of all contacts in my previous smart group. For instance imagine I have a "parent of" relationship, I make an advanced search on my previous smart group and ask for related contact with the relationship "parent of".

So in fact I'm trying to create a smart group based on a smart group.

Basically it seems to make sense, and it works, sometimes...When I do several simple search on the second smart group, results are different (sometimes I get the first smart group content), and smart group counts are very strange. When I update them I usually get the same count for all smart groups (I have several of these "smart group based smart groups").

Am I asking too much from the smart group system ? Do I need to give up with this idea ?

Sorry if it is unclear, but the whole thing (and its consequences) is hard to explain...

Thanks

OK, rethinking of what I tried it seems to be tricky to handle (the system would have to know that a smart group depends on another, and therefore update them in the right order, which must be a great deal).

The fact is I really need to perform actions on my second smart group, and given the fact that this group won't change frequently I think I will create regular groups and explain my client that he needs to maintain it manually.

The Views / VBO integration seems really cool, I will definitely take a look as soon as possible !

Thank for your answer.