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Hi! Im trying to plan how to custimize drupal / civicrm system. I run drupal 5.10 civicrm 2.02 and civicontribute.

Wounder witch approatch would be most easy and fleixble to:
1. Make drupal username searchable from civicrm interface
2. rebuild searchoptions and fields in the searchresult with own sql querys.

the most important custom search would include total contributionamout by user in between selected dates. Also need qicklinks from the search result to civicrm notes and alarms

the options I'm looking at is:
1. custom searchview
2. hacking civicrm
3. execute own sql querys from drupal nodes

Anyone could give me their view what would be the best approach ?
Also a bit intressted if it would be better to upgrade to drupal 6.4 before doing all this and use new CiviCRM would make it more easy and good?

thank you for your input!