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Hi all,

(Please forgive the rambling. I haven't figured out a concise way to ask for this advice.)

Are there any methods for pre-populating and then 'auto-submitting' the form for a custom search? I have some circumstances where I don't really need to bother the user with filling out the form. I'll try to expand with some hand-waving quasi-examples.

I have a custom search based on the Proximity example that I'm very happy with. I use this as the 'base' search for my site (http://aameetinglocator.org, FWIW). What I want to do next is create links from other nodes one the site that will pass arguments to the search and take the user directly to the results. In other words, the links will contain arguments that "pre-define" the search, so the user won't really need to fill out the form. When they click the link, I'd really like to take them straight to the search results.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions, or more questions to help me explain this better.

  Nothing quite like asking a question to make one realize I knew the answer all along. 

Many thanks!