[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33185: user and site search in "Network Admin" returns less results than expected; frequently none

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#33185: user and site search in "Network Admin" returns less results than expected;
frequently none
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 Reporter:  tthorp              |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)        |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal              |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Networks and Sites  |    Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal              |   Keywords:
  Focuses:  multisite           |
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 In a multi-site Network, a search of "users" or "sites" requires a perfect
 match of certain fields in order to return result. Typically, for the way
 I am using it, the result is "No users found."

 It seems that the search works fine if the search string is equal to a
 field value such as "username" or "path", but it does not search last name
 for matches. Additionally, it would be preferable to users like me if the
 search string was loosely matched or surrounded with wildcards.

 I run a university blog service and we have hundreds of sites and
 thousands of users, so my use cases that are failing to work are as
 follows.

 1) "FIND USERS BY LAST NAME": navigate to Network Admin > Users and search
 for a user by typing their last name in the search field in the upper
 right and pressing search. Currently this search will only find complete
 and exact matches of usernames. To use an example, Josiah Carberry's
 username is jcarberr9. I can find him if I search jcarberr9, but not if I
 search for carberry or Carberry.
 2) "FIND SITES BY PORTION OF PATH": navigate to Network Admin > Sites and
 search for a site by typing a portion of the sitename in the search field
 in the upper right and pressing search. In my case, it would be useful use
 a portion of a course code in the search, so if I wanted to see all blogs
 for the Psychology department, I could just search for PSY.

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