Author Topic: How to pass a search result between users ? (Read 1175 times)

xavier · March 09, 2009, 03:11:40 am

Hi,

each search criterias is transformed into a qfKey . It doesn't seem to be possible to pass this url with key between users, nor to keep it for a long time.

I've seen a "force=1" criteria, and I did plan to use it but not sure how to do it in regards to the criteria. Say I want to have the individuals in belgium that are tagged with the tag 8:

/civicrm/contact/search/basic?force=1&country=Belgium&Tags|8]=1&contact_type=Individual

It doesn't take into account the criterias and dump all the contacts, no matter their tag, country or type. Any suggestion ?

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Donald Lobo · March 09, 2009, 08:17:02 am

use a smart group

i.e. user 1 does the search and creates a smart group. user 2 can then access the members of this smart group (via q=/civicrm/group/search?reset=1&force=1&context=smog&gid=2)

lobo

xavier · March 09, 2009, 08:57:36 am

Hi,

Well, I want to do that with all the contries, and various tags combination. Not so smart anymore

I'll try with profiles, the force=1 works with param if I'm right.

Donald Lobo · March 09, 2009, 11:40:45 am

i think this comes down to: How do you get the GET params to be part of the search query. We've done it for a few fields in civicrm search (id, gid) and you can potentially mimic that and generalize it. Might be quite useful to add this functionality.

Another option might be to use a hook to enable this, am still thinking on how easily to do this and where it makes sense to do so

lobo

xavier · March 09, 2009, 02:04:03 pm

Hi,

What about letting all the params that are POST working as well when they are GET and force=1 ?

Is there a performance reason ? security concern ?

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Donald Lobo · March 09, 2009, 02:24:27 pm

in the medium term that is the way to go, however a couple of caveats:

1. there is not support for that in the QuickForm package, hence will need to be manually coded in and/or support built at that level.

2. in POST we can use values posted while the labels are displayed, in GET you'd want to use labels rather than values (or probably either), and the layer would need to translate to what the code expects

3. checkboxes (which sends an array in POST) would need a similar translation

bottom line, there will be a fair amount of code and testing involved to do it. i.e. not a 2-hour hack

(maybe 4 hours, if we find the right place to do it:P

lobo

xavier · March 09, 2009, 03:52:12 pm

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2. in POST we can use values posted while the labels are displayed, in GET you'd want to use labels rather than values (or probably either), and the layer would need to translate to what the code expects

3. checkboxes (which sends an array in POST) would need a similar translation

Not sure that's a big deal. I mean, you have to look at the html code of the basic or advanced form to know what are the name of the GET params anyway, not a big deal to do it too for the values.

I did try to add in CRM/Contact/Form/Search.php

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if ($_GET['force'] && empty($_POST)) {
   foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {
     $_POST[$key] = $value;
   }
   $_POST['_qf_Basic_refresh'] = "Forced search";
   $_POST['__qf_default'] = "Basic:refresh";
}

;(

But it seems that Quickform is doing plenty of magic around it (btw, I find this package very messy and complicated to follow without big benefits over a simplier controler eg on zend or ezcomponent). Looks a bit more complicated than a few minutes hack indeed

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