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Hi All,

What I'm trying to accomplish is arranging the contact search criteria in both the basic and advanced seaches to display vertically rather than the original horizontal layout. The horizontal layout requires scrolling that I want to eliminate as the form slips under my sidebars that are both to the right.

I've managed to do it for the basic contact search by inserting </tr><tr> in BasicCriteria.tpl after where each label/value input form element is populated and saving it as a custom template.

That was easy enough. But I'm a bit stuck as to how to accomplish the same simple adjustment for the advanced search page. Looks like the advanced search (AdvancedCriteria.tpl) uses Dojo to populate the fieldset, referencing things called "Panes". It looks to me as if the HTML that determines the display of the fieldset is in these panes (using the Web Developer plugin for Firefox I can edit the resultant HTML, inserting the additional table row tags and achieve the desired result). Where are these panes from which the text and markup for the advanced search criteria are included? I just want to insert </tr><tr> after each label/value pair.

Chrys

Thanks! Although I searched and searched, they were right under my nose! I found many of the template files for the Advanced Search at /civicrm/templates/CRM/Contact/Form/Search/Criteria. I see now that other parts of the advanced search page that are included as expandable panes lower on the page are generated by template files located in the template directories for each respective component. For example, the template for the Contributions pane is at /civicrm/templates/CRM/Contribute/Form/Search/Common.tpl and the template for the Membership pane is at /civicrm/templates/CRM/Member/Form/Search/Common.tpl.

I edited the template files as needed and placed the edited files in my custom template directory, reconstructing the directory tree there. For example: /MyCustomTpl/CRM/Contact/Form/Search/Criteria. CiviCRM looks here first for custom template files before using an original template file if no custom template exists.