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Hi dudes,

I've been working on making some complex data available through a profile and have been exploring a couple of approaches.  Both are work in progress right now.

One is the use of Dojo to break up the search form and I'm having a couple of problems with the Dojo (the other is documented here: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=18808859).

This post is about the Dojo approach...

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I've only edited one file so far - Search.tpl - which I attach so you can see what I've been up to. 

I think this approach has potential (and I'll write this all up with a wiki and blog post when finished) but the problems I am experiencing (that i'd love some help with) are the following.

1) I would like the Dojo box to automatically resize so it can cope with different amounts of info in each box.  At the moment, the extra scroll bar that sometimes appears and the large amount of white space when the height is fixed at 600px makes the interface v. clumsy.  This post (http://www.dojotoolkit.org/forum/dijit-dijit-0-9/dijit-support/tabcontainer-1) makes me think this should be easy in Dojo but my attempts at doing so haven't worked out.  (btw. if we can work this out then I would recommend applying it to the contacts tab as well).

Maybe I can use jQuery to do the same?  A couple of pointers would be great.

2) Once I have carried out a search and then click on 'New search', the search criteria do not re-appear.  All I can see is a  0px by 0px div.

I think this is something to do with the fact that it is a Dojo tabcontainer but again, not being a Dojo/javascript person, I don't know what I have done wrong.

Let me know if I've missed any important bits of info.  Thanks for the help,
Michael