My platform heavily depends on searching users by there profile details. But on Discourse you dont get that much flexibility and only limited search through user details. How to fix that?

This might be a feature request, if you mean profile information on discourse isn’t indexed by the built in search function?

It is indexed but not all of it and very less flexibility. Not indexed at same level as search function works for topics and posts. That’s an issue for my site.

Can you give a few examples where you find Discourse is limited in this respect?

My site help people connect with similar exam dates. All users in there profile have there exam date visible but used search function to find users by there exam dates, it only show a drop down of 5-6 users but when searched it shows the search from the topics. The search function is able to recogn…

[Bild] evens_tailors.0d: All users in there profile have there exam date visible How? Is it in a field or in their bio or…?

In the field that I had created during sign up, which is editable and visible in there user card.

The same thing was asked here: [Bild] Search with custom user fields Development I also tried the same but It worked only with the name 1vic when I passed the user field value but it didn’t work “sgroup_admin” https://supportgroups.com/directory_items.j…

[Bild] Coin-coin le Canapin: And here: I have enabled that

The problem is that if I do this [image] and then fill in a value and search for it [image] it does not return any results.

I think there can be a time-lag between filling in the custom field and it appearing in the search, if that could be an issue? (I think the job runs every hour or so) - Are the custom fields searchable in the user directory? - #12 by JammyDodger It also doesn’t like special characters so much, so m…

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) 20. Oktober 2023 um 15:49 11

Das Problem ist, dass wenn ich das mache

und dann einen Wert eingebe und danach suche

liefert es keine Ergebnisse zurück.

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