CiviCRM has great search facilities. By using Advanced Search or Search Builder you can find pretty much anything within your database. You can use profiles to provide useful links to list your data without having to go back and forth between searches.
We will use a setting in profiles that creates more search links to explore data further.
Navigate to Administer | Customize Data and Screens | Profiles and add a new profile.
Save your profile and add the fields that interest you.
In the Used For field, select Standalone Form or Directory.
When you add fields to your profile make sure that the fields are set to:
Public Pages and Listings
Show in Results Column
Searchable
In the following example we have added three fields:
Once you have done this, use the search URL
civicrm/profile?gid=N&reset=1
, whereN
is the ID of your profile, and perform a search. From the result set, you will see there is a column containing the...