This is a great little module. Would be great to have CiviCRM integration so that you can search on First and Last name. With OG and Civi Syncing already happening, I think this would be a sensible addition and I'm sure would be used by the CiviCRM community.

I'm not a coder so can't get to it but your thoughts are appreciated and maybe we could sponsor something if its quite straightforward.

Thanks a lot!

Adam

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Unfortunately I don't know anything about the internals of CiviCRM. Support for searching on first/last name is included if you use Content Profile to store them. So, the coding required could probably be based on that. However to do the work I would need to install and investigate CiviCRM to find out how/where the names are stored and test the resulting version. I'd guess it would only be a few hours, but of course these things have an annoying tendency to take longer than expected. CiviCRM is on my to-do list for investigation, so when I get round to installing it I can take a look at this. In the mean time, others might be able to offer some pointers or patches. Please email me if you'd like to go the sponsorship route.

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With version 2.x of GA, support for real names has been moved out into sub-modules. So, it becomes more practical to have an add-on sub-module to support CiviCRM name data. I'm not saying I can/will do it, as I don't know how CiviCRM works, but somebody who does understand CiviCRM should be able to provide a sub-module. The GroupAdmin Profile and GroupAdmin CP modules now included in version 2 can be used as a starting point.