# Search should also look at "About me" section in user profile

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-should-also-look-at-about-me-section-in-user-profile/24590>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 29, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-should-also-look-at-about-me-section-in-user-profile/24590 "2015-01-29T23:09:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![ssvenn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ssvenn/32/86740_2.png) [@ssvenn](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ssvenn)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-should-also-look-at-about-me-section-in-user-profile/24590/7 "2018-09-19T16:43:02Z")

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After playing around with AD SSO and sending some useful information like employee titles and departments as custom fields into Discourse, the ability to search custom fields to find users would be very welcome!

Something like this, leaving it up to the site admin how to set it up:

 ![searchable](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/0/a/0ab9a449072e60a4cf2412ecb8d9492013b15746.png)

(although maybe it would be better implemented as a new Field Type “Searchable Text Field”)

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