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The project we are currently working on contains a “staff” section, where every staff member has its own profile page. (Made with Solspace’s User module.)

Therefore we would like to expand the global search form to not only search within weblogs but also within the members. On the ExpressionEngine homepage this is being listed as a feature:

Powerful search module with simple and advanced search capability. You can search within weblogs, comments, members, and categories.

However, I can’t seem to find any documentation on this. Right now my search form looks like this:

{exp:search:simple_form weblog="projects|news" result_page="search/results" no_results_page="search/noresults" search_in="everywhere"}
<input type="text" name="keywords" id="search_query" value="search…" size="18" maxlength="90">
<input id="search_go" type="submit" value="go" class="submit" size="18" maxlength="30"/>
{/exp:search:simple_form}

How can I search within members with that search form?

sthmtc, have you seen this in the docs? EEDocs:// Simple Search Member Name

I think what sthmtc is asking (and know for sure it’s what I’m asking) is how to make members show up in the search results, rather than how to limit the search results by author. So for instance, if I searched the site for my own name my profile page would show up in the results, as well as any weblog entry that mentions me.

I know the the User module lets you search the member list, but is there any way to integrate the two? Otherwise, am I going to have to create a new weblog and duplicate all the info from the member accounts to have a workable “Staff” section?

^Yup, this is what I meant. I’m in the process of custom building my own search by now but I’d love to come up with an easier solution.

A staff container would be one way of handling it. I suppose you could create some sort of extension that would make the entry automagically. Sounds like a good feature request, though.

So what’s the deal with the description of the search feature that sthmtc quoted? If there really is no way to do this, that description is pretty misleading.

I’ll post back here if I figure out any good way to implement this.

As Sue said, the easiest way would be to setup a “staff” weblog for that purpose, using whatever custom fields you need. There is a way to restrict the search by member, but not search member profiles as such.