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March 8, 2021
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How to search for a person?

  • March 8, 2021
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When users search for another user, the search results don’t seem to serve up people/user profiles. 

Am I missing something? How would a user go about doing that? 

    Best answer by Kgastaldo

    You can’t, really. You might get lucky by searching for a name and coming upon a post they’ve commented on - but no way to search for a member profile.

    There’s an idea here you may want to vote on:

     

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    Kgastaldo
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    March 8, 2021

    You can’t, really. You might get lucky by searching for a name and coming upon a post they’ve commented on - but no way to search for a member profile.

    There’s an idea here you may want to vote on:

     

    anirbandutta
    anirbandutta
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    November 19, 2021

    When users search for another user, the search results don’t seem to serve up people/user profiles. 

    Am I missing something? How would a user go about doing that? 

    This is a common frustration with anyone who’s browsed the community for 5mins that it makes it extremely tough for identifying people and networking. The feeds, leaderboards everything shows usernames, which gives it a very robotic feel vs humans with actual names and proper bios.

    It's an opportunity for engagement
      anirbandutta
      anirbandutta
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      November 19, 2021

      When users search for another user, the search results don’t seem to serve up people/user profiles. 

      Am I missing something? How would a user go about doing that? 

      This is a common frustration with anyone who’s browsed the community for 5mins that it makes it extremely tough for identifying people and networking. The feeds, leaderboards everything shows usernames, which gives it a very robotic feel vs humans with actual names and proper bios.

      Btw @Marina Perminova , Full Names on the Miro Community leaderboard (vs default usernames) is Wonderful to see! How did you achieve that? :) 

      It's an opportunity for engagement
      rhall
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      July 19, 2024

      I have just thought of a solution to this using Gainsight’s built-in search. I will be trying this out, but I am curious as to whether anyone else has thought of this. Use the federated search.
       

      1. Get your complete list of users and relevant (but safe, user data)
      2. Use the federated search indexing API to get your data in (https://api2-eu-west-1.insided.com/docs/search/#tag/Federated-Search/operation/index)

      This would need to be updated on at least a daily basis, but would enable your users to search for users. I suspect it would not be too difficult to automate with Google Scripts or something like Zapier as well.

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