Body: <p>If I look for, for example, participants for a given event, using Advanced Search, I can  - according the actions menu send them all an email using CiviMail/Mosaico without needing to first create a group for those contacts. But If I find those same contacts by searching for Participants, or using the drop-down participant options from the Manage Events screen, no such mailing option is offered.</p>
  <p>If I use Advanced Search to look for, for example, participants for a given event, and I want to create a smart group form the results, there's a checkbox right there so that I can make that smart group a mailing list. But if I find those same people using a participant search, or once again using the drop-down participant listing options from the Manage Events screen, no such checkbox is provided.</p>
  <p>What's that all about then?</p>
  
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Comments.CreationDate: 2021-06-22T13:59:04.210Z
Comments.Text: Probably because whoever added those features didn't use participant search!
Comments.UserDisplayName: Aidan
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Comments.CreationDate: 2021-06-22T14:09:34.397Z
Comments.Text: I think some of the differences (but not all) are if you search for participant records rather than contact records in the advanced search
Comments.UserDisplayName: Mick Kahn
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Comments.CreationDate: 2021-06-22T21:13:23.983Z
Comments.Text: i think the logic is about the 'entity'. you add a contact to a group. it is not a participant that is added to the group. hence if you want to add participants to a group do it via Adv Search. presumably to offer this via Find Participants requires more left joins which no-one contributed. i support your hope that these Actions could be more widely available but am pretty certain it won't happen without a funded effort
Comments.UserDisplayName: petednz - fuzion
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Title: Why aren't the neat tools in Advanced Search more widely available across CiviCRM?
ThreadText: # Why aren't the neat tools in Advanced Search more widely available across CiviCRM?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2021-06-22)
  
  If I look for, for example, participants for a given event, using Advanced Search, I can - according the actions menu send them all an email using CiviMail/Mosaico without needing to first create a group for those contacts. But If I find those same contacts by searching for Participants, or using the drop-down participant options from the Manage Events screen, no such mailing option is offered.
  
  If I use Advanced Search to look for, for example, participants for a given event, and I want to create a smart group form the results, there's a checkbox right there so that I can make that smart group a mailing list. But if I find those same people using a participant search, or once again using the drop-down participant listing options from the Manage Events screen, no such checkbox is provided.
  
  What's that all about then?
  
  **Tags:** ui
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Probably because whoever added those features didn't use participant search!  
  > **username_2**: I think some of the differences (but not all) are if you search for participant records rather than contact records in the advanced search  
  > **username_3**: i think the logic is about the 'entity'. you add a contact to a group. it is not a participant that is added to the group. hence if you want to add participants to a group do it via Adv Search. presumably to offer this via Find Participants requires more left joins which no-one contributed. i support your hope that these Actions could be more widely available but am pretty certain it won't happen without a funded effort  
  
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