Maybe this should be two topics, but it’s an example of trying to solve a particular problem with the AI, and I still want an answer. :slight_smile: I am helping someone who wants a bunch of user custom fields to be searchable. I told them they’d need a plugin, but they don’t. You can check the “se…

[이미지] pfaffman: You can check the “searchable” option in the user settings (just how long has this been true?): Aah, not that long. :slight_smile: [이미지] 2.7.0.beta8: Share Topic Modal Improvements, Searchable User Fields, Pause Animated Images, and more Searchable user fields Staff can no…

[이미지] JammyDodger: I think the perfect solution would be a change to core to get the inbuilt user fields to also be searchable Agreed. [이미지] JammyDodger: You should be able to pull this info out using the data explorer though? Yeah ( data explorer was my suggestion until I realized tha…

Putting the ‘ideal’ aside for a moment… If they have a set of other custom fields already that are searchable then creating a new ‘Location’ one would probably be the smoothest option. :thinking: If you can migrate the existing values from the inbuilt Location field to this new Location custom fie…

[이미지] JammyDodger: If they have a set of other custom fields already that are searchable then creating a new ‘Location’ one would probably be the smoothest option. That’s actually what they started with (they had actually used location for something else). But now they want to use the locatio…

Ahh. Right. That is slightly more of a tangle. :slight_smile: Are they showing these custom fields on signup? If so, I think they’d need to keep the custom field for Location as I’m not sure you can have the default one on the signup form (same for if they’ve included the extra columns in the user …

@pfaffman was there a resolution here so we can close this topic? [이미지] JammyDodger: I think the perfect solution would be a change to core to get the inbuilt user fields to also be searchable. It is a bit of an oddity that custom ones have more functionality than the default ones. @JammyDod…

I’m halfway through writing a plugin that copies the email address and location to custom fields so they’ll be searchable. Having email available is definitely an edge case, though.

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) 6월 7, 2025, 1:54오후 3

Agreed.

Yeah (data explorer was my suggestion until I realized that for years the functionality was on core). They want users to be able to find each other, like if they have the same equipment or are traveling to another city.

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