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…

[圖片] pfaffman: You can check the “searchable” option in the user settings (just how long has this been true?): Aah, not that long. :slight_smile: [圖片] 2.7.0.beta8: Share Topic Modal Improvements, Searchable User Fields, Pause Animated Images, and more Searchable user fields Staff can now …

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

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…

[圖片] 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 location…

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? [圖片] 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. @JammyDodg…

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) 2025年六月7日 13:54 3

同意。

是的（数据浏览器是我的建议，直到我意识到这个功能已经在核心中存在多年）。他们希望用户能够找到彼此，例如拥有相同的设备或前往另一个城市。

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