The user search tab doesn't show any result, when the entered text is the full name of a Drupal user (try with http://drupal.org/search/user_search/Alberto%20Paderno).

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dave reid’s picture

dave reid
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Core's user search knows nothing about profiles fields, which is what the full name is. Not sure why a full name search would be useful when we don't display or use the full name field anywhere else on drupal.org besides as a field in the user profile display.

avpaderno’s picture

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I can think of a use case where searching for a full name could be useful. If I would want to sent an email to somebody who has a Drupal.org account, but I know him/her only by full name, I could not find his account, and send her/him an email.

I had to remove the email addresses reported in a module README.txt, and I noticed that it is not easy to get the user account only by knowing the full name of a person.

avpaderno’s picture

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Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

I get that the use case I reported is not sufficient.