Hi,

I have a requirement where I need to be able to search the user profile store. I need to be able to search by first or last name, but also the full set of properties as a wild card.

I was thinking to use a query string but I am not sure how to set up the result source to search for all properties (in addition to the names) based on a query string value.

What is the best way to go about achieving this?

Thanks,

sivilian

Hi sivilian,

Please go to your Managed Proerties of user profile properties setting page, then click Advanced Searchable Settings and select the "PeopleIdx", then perform a full crawl, then check results of searching the value of user properties.

Here are some uesful articles for your reference.

http://techmikael.blogspot.com/2014/11/how-to-make-sure-user-profile.html

http://gavinb.net/2014/04/14/sharepoint-2013-search-add-user-profile-properties-to-the-full-text-index/

Thanks

Daniel

Thank you Daniel..

This is not exactly my problem.

What I ended up doing was to simply create a web part that appending the first and lastname to the SearchResults page as follows:

k=firstname:VALUE

This works very well in conjunction with the OOTB Search Box.

Thanks,

sivilian