Posted by monkeybeach on January 3, 2008 at 11:30am
I'm trying to come up with a way to allow authenticated users to search for other members.
I thought this should be possible using Views but it seems as if user profiles aren't exposed as a content type Views can access.
Anyone got any idea how I could achieve this?
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Node profile
Maybe the Node profile module is suitable for you.
Not really
I installed Node Profile and Node Profile Search and all their dependencies. Gives me a couple of new pages located at:
/search/nodeprofile_search/
and
/search/user
I believe.
The latter works only for username which doesn't match my requirements - I need it to search by custom fields provided by the Profile module which contain First name and Surname.
The former sounded good but on searching for "paul" it listed pages throughout the site, as a normal search would.
From what i can glean from the documentation, the Node Profile module requires me to set up a new content-type in addition to the 'true profile' of the user - this isn't really something I want to do as we have 1000's of users already active and used to the way the site works...