Searching multi-select user fields

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I implemented a profile user field (question) with a multi select and made it optional and searchable. The idea is to allow users of a certain component to find each other.

First it took a day or two for the question to be visible in profiles. Is there a nightly indexing going on or something?

Second, now the multi select options show up in the user info card and when I click on them it starts a search in groups (/u url path). That would be very neat as I need it for discovers! however the search is always empty. Are there some more conditions which need to be met? And also why does the search have a time range, does it work on posts or on users?

Also searching in generic search for the terms does not work. Are there problems with blanks or uppercase in the name or does it also need some re-indexing to work? I am using stable containers.

Also a problem: The profile summary (expanded header) also shows the field (list of selected entries), but they are not clickable in this location.

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Little correction if i go to user search i can actually search for the multi-select terms. But the links from the Cards dont use that search type.

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Were you able to resolve your issue? I just tested it and it works for me.

Reproduction steps:

  • create user field using multiselect as the field type, editable after signup, show on public profile, show on user card, searchable
  • edit a user to choose one or more items from the multiselect and save changes
  • look at user profile and user card to confirm the multiselect items show up
  • use site search to search for multiselect items and confirm the user shows up
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We have updated to 3.5.1 but the one problem persists: if I open the user card of a user who has filled out the multi selection their selections are shown properly now as links. But if I click on one of them (to see all users with this property) it opens a /u search which does not return any results (and has a unexpected time frame limit).

I can confirm that search works when using the regular user search, but nor for all cases, I have a term „BIS Server 6.7“ which auto completes the User Matches but when I press enter the result list is empty. But it does List some with „BIS Server“ - so maybe does not like dot or Numbers or two Spaces

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It seems likely that the dot is a problem. Similar problems have occurred before.

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The First issue (link does not work) happens also for values without a dot, though:

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This is the odd search („search in groups“?) which opens when I Click one of the terms in my user card on https://server/u?name=BIS%20in%20iPaaS

So it seems to be two different issues.