Search-Builder-Overhaul.md

+The following represents the results of a discovery project whose central objective *is to improve the search and reporting capabilities of CiviCRM*. 
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+This page presents “Search Builder” as a recommended approach to unifying developments that are underway (APIv4 and Form Builder) as a foundation for a consolidated search and reporting utility. Furthermore, the lays out project roadmap of key blocks of work necessary to complete Search Builder via issues associated with the following milestons:
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+- Phase 1 - https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/report/-/milestones/3 (target completion June 30, 2020)
+- Future Phases - https://lab.civicrm.org/dev/report/-/milestones/4
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+## Proposed Technology Stack
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+![APIv4-Based_Search_Stack](uploads/fe4f1a50407c79077b3bc4b78be28d1b/APIv4-Based_Search_Stack.jpg)
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+Based on the research and discussions, the following solution was proposed:
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+- APIv4 will serve as the query builder for all future search/export/reports.
+- Additional functionality will need to be added.
+- A new Search Builder UI will be created.
+- The Form Builder project can be used to configure search builder queries into reports and custom searches.
+- The new Export UI built for WMF can be incorporated into this workflow (and is now merged into core to facilitate this development).
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