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EmilyVo
Level 2
October 28, 2024
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Search Drop Down User Field by Email Address

  • October 28, 2024
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Description - Ability to use typeahead search functionality to search via email address on a user field vs. searching a user's name.

Why is this feature important to you - It would be great to be able to search for a user using their email address if you are looking for users in a specific organization. Sometimes you may not know the external partner's name you want to engage on a request form and want to see the available options for users with that email address suffix.

How would you like the feature to work - If I search "@workfront.com" I can see users in my drop down that have that email address in their user name

Current Behaviour - I have to know the users first or last name to be able to search for them in the typeahead field.

    2 replies

    Srinija_N
    Srinija_N
    Level 7
    October 29, 2024

    Unfortunately, typeahead works on the Username(object name).

     

    But you can still apply filters on this typeahead fields, if you only want to see specific role users to appear on the dropdown or using with @3836518.com email address is possible.

     

    emailAddr=@xyz.com
    emailAddr_Mod=cicontains

     

    when you add this filter on your Typeahead field, the result only shows the users with @3836518.com email address only.

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    JulieFa
    Level 2
    December 9, 2024

    In our case, filtering the list in the system is not the end goal.  We need the full list of users to be available options with the goal of this request to make it easier for end users to narrow the list displayed.  For example, I know the user I want is at company abc, so I type @1754065 to see the list of users available with that email suffix.  In another project I may need to add users from company xyz and so typing @3836518 shows users from that company. 

     

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