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How to make tables with fixed header and left column - scroll vertically and horizontally
We found a way that may perhaps be helpful for others, so we're posting the answer here. This applies to Drupal 7, Civi 4.6.17:
We needed to add extra fields to the Batch update profile code, as per ...
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Contact Search Results Address Type
MikeLab, Welcome to CiviCRM SE.
The address to be displayed on search result (primary or non-primary) is based on the setting 'Search Primary Details Only'.
You can change the value of this setting ...
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Exact Search Results
It can be done navigating to Administer -> Customize Data and Screens -> Search Preferences, the first option is Automatic Wildcards, disable it.
If enabled, wildcards are automatically added to ...
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Search Confusion
If you need to exclude all of those email options at once for an export or something I would search up those people, put them in a group, and exclude the group from your searches.
To search up that ...
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Why is the column called "Soft Credit For" when it seems to show "Soft Credit from"?
Good question. There is probably no explanation except that the developer who implemented it called it this way. Maybe by mistake.
If you feel this is wrong you can file an issue and if you have ...
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Shortlisting contacts with complete address
You can use the search builder to search for empty fields, e.g. Steet-Address or ZIP Code. From the result, you could create a (smart) group and then exclude contacts in that group from the mailing.
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How to find out the URL of my search results and edit the columns in the results?
You can configure profile to use as contact search. You can also control the result columns in profile search. To display contact result by default you can append force=1 in url.
Ref: https://docs....
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(version 5.13/5.14) Search Builder syntax error when "Groups" "is empty"
This is a recent bug introduced by the fix to a different search issue, issue #726.
A permanent fix will need to be found that doesn't break either scenario. However, to resolve your immediate issue,...
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Search on custom 'Yes or No' fields appears broken in 4.6.6
I have replicated this on another site on 4.6.6 & logged https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-17006
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Donor with only email address shows no display name
This sounds like a bug in recent CiviCRM, especially given that you've confirmed the behavior change on demo site.
Why this happened isn't so important I expect as what to do to get it fixed, and ...
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Supplemental address should be searchable
It does sound like a reasonable feature request, and the good news is that it's already been implemented.
The pull request was merged in March, so any version of CiviCRM from 4.7.18 upwards should ...
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new feature? - all addresses needs to be searchable
In the advanced search under the "Address Fields" you can choose "Address Location" which defaults to primary only. By selecting all of them you can search by any address type. answer taken from this ...
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Contact Search Column & Data Mismatch
This has been fixed at https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/10556 and is included in 4.7.21 version.
You can apply the PR on your site if you don't wish to upgrade now.
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How to search contacts with certain prefix say, "Dr"?
This is job for the Search Builder that you can find in the Search menu
Select Individual
Select Individual Prefix
Complete with = and the desired title.
When the results are shown you can create a ...
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Search Profile troubles
Add &force=1 to the url. You can also specify the search terms by the field name, e.g. to pre-specify a search on First Name use
http://dmaster.demo.civicrm.org/civicrm/profile?gid=1&force=1&...
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Can't search profile in Wordpress
The resolution is a total head slapper. The problem was caused by previewing the page instead of publishing the page and viewing the published content. The directory profile is working.
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How to change what fields show as columns in the Search display screen
If you mean to display the search result columns to display custom fields, than you can create a profile to include all the fields to include as column(check the result column checkbox while adding ...
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Searching for contacts using a list of first/last names
Welcome to CiviCRM stack exchange. I don't think there is anything built in. If its a lot of people you have in a spreadsheet, I'd export all the conatcts with contact ids to a spreadsheet and than ...
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CiviCRM Search page results - Custom template
It depends which searches you are talking about, but you can configure a Profile for displaying contact search results at Administer > Customize Data & Screens > Search Preferences > ...
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Different search results in Adv Search vs Search Builder
After you have made your advanced search and get no results, you will stay on the advanced search page.
If you look at the bottom of that page it will say "No matches found for:" and then list the ...
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What went wrong with events search? "Counted" link gives error... How to fix it?
This is a bug that was introduced in 4.6.5. My guess is 4.6.6 will be out pretty quickly as a result!
Check here if you want to jump in & patch your install
https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/...
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finding people with activities added by a certain user
You could use the search "Find activities" as in the screenshot. However this will only give you a list of activities as a result and not of the contacts (you can only see them in the results column). ...
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Exact Search Results
For undertaking a single search, which may not be what you are after, you can use Search Builder (under Search in Admin menu) and set Contact Type = Individual AND Last Name = Head
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Hanging Searches, Listings
It sounds like you have a problem on your install/instance, perhaps a host issue.
If you are evaluating CiviCRM, you may first want to try the Joomla Demo and/or create a sandbox to test on.
Once ...
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Why doesn't the count of '0' change on Search Results when i select some records or 'all on this page'
A bug had already been filed on JIRA and it is listed as FIXED for 4.6.17
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Search behavior Individual/Household
It should show up both contacts, I suspect there might be something in the setup of your sort name. Could you attach some screen prints so I can see what happens?
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Include tags or groups in Advanced search views?
In Advanced Search - I don't think that is possible now due to the reason mentioned in the question. But it could be fixed by filing a JIRA/PR etc.
Workaround - Use Search Builder and fire a query ...
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Using login data to skip over search
To close this out, I have actually written a custom PHP script to do this for me in a nice table format. I inject the PHP using a wordpress plugin call XYZ PHP Code and it works great.
you can get ...
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DB error: Unknown error in search
I think you might have mysql full group by mode on - 4.7 supports that (latest version is 4.7.19) but not 4.6. I think full group by is on by default or always on mysql 5.7
https://stackoverflow.com/...
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Filtering activities by Source Contact ID
Search Builder seems to be broken for this functionality, you may report that as an issue in the issue tracker: https://issues.civicrm.org/.
My understanding is that you want to search within the ...
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