[Steven Zahm]

@ Linda

There really is not an easy way to add search to one of the basic templates. However the character index is available to all templates. It can be enabled on the Connections : Settings admin page under the Display tab. You can also force it on with a shortcode option, like so:

[connections show_alphaindex='true']

To list just a list of names you can use the names template that comes with Connections. It is the same templates used when clicking the View All link if that is enabled. You can force it to be used without setting it as the activate template using the shortcode option like so:

[connections templates='names']

I hope that helps, let me know.