# Searching multi-select user fields

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-multi-select-user-fields/385144>\
**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** user-custom-fields\
**Created:** [October 9, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-multi-select-user-fields/385144 "2025-10-09T15:07:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![ecki](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ecki/32/264025_2.png) [@ecki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ecki)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-multi-select-user-fields/385144/17 "2025-11-12T20:05:46Z")

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I expect it to go to a search where it actually finds users with the item in profile, for example the input completion of the site search or the search result when I pick „users“ in the site search.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/7/3/b73b0d6a39d28a80d6896816b1c5c1ed329a02e4.png)

This is the site search with the expected result (manually entered search)

oh I just noticed. The reason why I dont get no Matches (even when manually switching to „all time“ might be because User Browsing is switched off on my Site). So maybe the bug is not that I can’t search for them in User Directory, but the Problem is that Site search still Shows them? ,)

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