By jmeeter on
It is very important that custom profile fields can be included in search results on my website. What I mean is, if someone lists "Dogs" as an interest on their profile, then their profile should come up when someone does a search for the term 'dogs'.
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As to your question, core search searches users and nodes separately and I don't believe includes profile info when searching for users-- just the username. However, if you go to a users page and click on the answer to the profile field in question, you'll retrieve a list of all users with that same value.
In order to make user profiles full node content (and therefore searchable, among other things), use the content_profile module.
There's also a Search Facets
There's also a Search Facets module which searched CCK facet fields I believe.
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Yes, but that requires profiles to be nodes (and thus usable with cck) first.
I haven't tested yet, but as
I haven't tested yet, but as users and profiles are open to Views 2, this should be possible with a view.
Also
Also http://drupal.org/project/profileplus has a dev version for 6 (not sure how stable it is, but you can take a look).