Search user profile based on specific property

Question

I have a requirement to search a user profiles based on specific property like LastName='John' in 'IT' Department

I'm using search pattern in userprofilemanager.search()

string[] searchPattern = {  “LastName = 'smith'”, "Department='IT'"};

I'm not able to get result as i'm passing above mentioned search pattern.

i need to search for specific Property field, instead of searching all properties.

Can u please help me out of that.

Answer 1

You can read the following link about how to use the SearchPattern with the Search method. The SearchPatter does not support name value syntax. It will search a set of fixed searchable user profile properties for the comman delimitted strings you provide as an argument.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/yardman/archive/2010/06/29/sharepoint-userprofilemanager-search-method-sample.aspx

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Answer 2

as much as i know, there is hot fix for that-

http://kgraeme.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/sharepoint-user-profile-custom-properties-keyword-search-problem/

Thanks

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ARUN