Searching (user) fields

• opus13

• June 12, 2016 at 4:51 pm

Apparently there is not a way to reopen a thread after it has been marked ‘solved’. Re: this post here.

Updated information as well:

I am trying to use the search function to find a user assigned to a posts content. I have created a blank site with only ACF Pro installed. I have a single (non administrator) user named ‘Frank Jones’. This user is assigned via the ACF ‘User’ field inside a repeater . The user data show up in a posts, using the twentyfifteen theme with the field call put in.

I have tried:

1. Relevanssi using these field options
   • all
   • all:
   • _userlist_0_user
   • userlist_0_user
   • Userlist_0_user
   • Userlist
   • userlist
   • userlist_%_user
   • Userlist_%_user
2. Custom Fields Search
3. Search Everything
4. Custom Search ACF WordPress
5. This fork of the above
6. Search & Filter Pro
7. Google Custom Search

What am I missing? It seems like there has got to be a tool that will allow someone to search for this field. I can search for anything else I have tried via differnet configurations, but Users just seems to be lost.

Any help appreciated!

• John Huebner

• June 12, 2016 at 10:58 pm

I don’t know the answer to this. This is a question for Relevanssi support. Also, I’m not sure that it will work because the user field only stores the user ID in the database, so Relevanssi will need to have something that will let you map ID’s to Name. I did find this when I did a search that appears to answer this question https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-relevanssi-with-advanced-custom-fields

• opus13

• June 13, 2016 at 3:48 am

Relevanssi was just one if the options I had tried, not the only one (it just happens to have to more possible config options).

With Relevanssi I can find pretty much every value *except* for User, in and out of a repeater.

It seems odd that there is no way to search for a value that can be populated to the site content.

Also, I had tried that method on their site with no results