Hide user of one group from another in search

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The discussion revolves around restricting user visibility between groups in search. Ankur_Tyagi wants to prevent users from Group A from searching and viewing users from Group B. ondrej suggested changing a group setting to restrict external users from seeing group members, but this does not solve the issue as users can still be found in the global search. Ankur_Tyagi already has this setting applied and is seeking a more specific solution. Moin believes a plugin might be necessary to achieve this and shared a related topic on the Discourse meta forum: https://meta.discourse.org/t/all-users-are-visible-in-mentions-autocomplete-list/232147/2?u=moin.

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hi, I created two group, Group A and Group B and each group has a list of users. Now If I am logged in as Group A and search a user from Group B in global search option, can I restrict this?

In simple words, users of Group A should not be able to search any user from Group B or any other group.

This is the search I am talking about. Screenshot attached below

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Please share if this is possible.

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If you change this setting in the group, only users in the group can see who is in the group. External users can’t see members.

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If you search for a user on the site like in your screenshot, it wouldn’t identify what group they are in?

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Thanks, I have this setting applied already, but this does not solve my issue.
If I search another group user in the search, it shows the user details, but not the group.
But I wish to hide one group user from another group user in the search.
Is that possible?

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I think you would need a plugin doing that.
There are similar topics like All users are visible in @mentions autocomplete list - #2 by pfaffman. You will find more looking at the related topics.