By bmblack on

Right now, my site's search function works well - but I'd like to simplify it a bit. Apparently users are confused when they type a person's name in the search box and it doesn't return any results (because it's actually searching content, not user profiles). For them to do a search, they actually have to click on a "User Profile" tab within the search page.

Is it possible to somehow search the content AND the user profiles in one search?

For example, I'd like to allow my users to type profile OR content information into a search box and return all results. So if I type "Andrew" into the search box, the results would be something along the lines of "Andrew's profile", "Blog Andrew commented on", "Page with the name andrew in it", etc, etc.

I know one common suggestion would probably be to just use content profiles. I'm actually already doing that (using advanced profile kit) - but my problem is, I want the user to enter their name upon registration to the site - and to my knowledge you can't put an APK field on the user registration page. I'm pulling that name from the user registration and displaying it in my content profile, but apparently it's not considered content, so a content search doesn't pick it up.

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tsi commented

Same question.
did you ever find a solution ?

Tsachi Shlidor (@shlidor)

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bmblack commented

Yes - you can actually use apk fields in the user registration.

For me to do this, I just went to Administer -> Content Management -> Content types ->

From here, you find the content profile that you're using. In my case it was "User Profile". I clicked "edit"

My "User Profile" content type opened up and from there, I clicked "Content Profile" from the menu on the top of the screen.

On this page, you can chose to display your specific profile content items upon registration.