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What is this "reset=1" parameter?

Is this default set by

PHP
Drupal
CiviCRM
or what?

I poked around in the various Admin pages but I don't see how this default is set.

Also, what does this do (compared to omitting the parameter)?

Can you send me some links with documentation about "reset"?

thanks
Harry Levinson

I gathered that it performs some kind of cleaning or reset, but ...

I was trying to figure out

1. Who "owns" or uses this parameter -- CiviCRM or some other software (Drupal). So you answered that question 
2. What happens without "reset=1"? Are there other useful values besides [1]?
3. It seems whenever I click anything in CiviCRM it always has "reset=1". If that's true, why isn't that functionality just hardwired? (Maybe I just haven't noticed cases where that was missing.)

I looked at the architecture page but didn't see any docs about what kind of resets are happening with this parameter. Maybe you could send me a more specific link?

thanks

2. its a binary value, so 0/1 are the valid values

3. When you hit submit / on a multi-page form / when u need to go back to a search, we return back to the same url without a reset=1

lobo

Tantalizing hint, but I don't understand what you mean.  I've been all over the code and I haven't figured out who's picking up the &reset argument or what it does.  Similarly, what does &force do?

My understanding is that reset=1 clears the locally scoped session values (generally for a specific form). And force=1 "forces" a search form to retrieve search results using the search parameters currently in it's session.

So does force=1 pretty much mean, "skip displaying the input form to the user, just execute the search with default values, as though the user had just clicked on the "search" button without entering or changing any fields?"