I think I have stumbled on an issue with the search filter displayed in the Contacts listing for a specific category. I'm relatively new to this so please forgive any mistakes.

J!3.0.2

When a menu item created for listing contacts of a specific category, the Search input box was displayed. I wasn't able to find the switch to hide this and any input was ignored as far as filtering was concerned.

default_items.php view had the following line of code

There was no parameter "filter_field" in the xml files (default.xml or config.xml).

Insert following into admin/config.xml at around line 433

        <field name="filter_field" type="radio"
            default="1"
            class="btn-group"
            label="COM_CONTACT_FIELD_FILTER_FIELD_LABEL"
            description="COM_CONTACT_FIELD_FILTER_FIELD_DESC"
        >
            <option value="0">JHIDE</option>
            <option value="1">JSHOW</option>
        </field>

Insert following into site/views/category/tmpl/default.xml at around line 95

    <field name="filter_field" type="list"
        label="COM_CONTACT_FIELD_FILTER_FIELD_LABEL"
        description="COM_CONTACT_FIELD_FILTER_FIELD_DESC" >
        <option value="">JGLOBAL_USE_GLOBAL</option>
        <option value="0">JHIDE</option>
        <option value="1">JSHOW</option>
    </field>

To maintain the standard for these switches with values of 0 or 1 the following needs to be amended in site/views/category/tmpl/default_items.php line 22

from params->get('filter_field') != 'hide') :?>
to params->get('filter_field') != 0) :?>

insert the buttons to execute the search and clear the search at line 26

            <button class="btn hasTooltip" type="submit" title="<?php echo JText::_('JSEARCH_FILTER_SUBMIT'); ?>"><i class="icon-search"></i></button>
            <button class="btn hasTooltip" type="button" title="<?php echo JText::_('JSEARCH_FILTER_CLEAR'); ?>" onclick="document.id('filter-search').value='';this.form.submit();"><i class="icon-remove"></i></button>

Insert some help language text to admin/language/en-GB/en-GB.com_contact.ini

COM_CONTACT_FIELD_FILTER_FIELD_DESC="Show or hide the search filter input box"
COM_CONTACT_FIELD_FILTER_FIELD_LABEL="Display Search Filter"

And update the model to perform the search

Insert around line 168 in the getListQuery function

    // Filter by search input
    $search = $this->getState('filter.search');
    if (!empty($search)) {
        $search = $db->Quote('%'.$db->escape($search, true).'%');
        $query->where('(  a.name LIKE '.$search.'  )');
    }

Insert around 256 in the populateState function

    // Load the filter state.
    $search = $app->getUserStateFromRequest('filter.search', 'filter-search');
    $this->setState('filter.search', $search);

If I have missed something or mis-understood where this search execution is performed, I apologise. Cheers.

Glenn