<p>You can just limit your search to those specific user fields.</p>
<p>It should go something like:</p>
<pre><code>{% set users = craft.users()
    .search('fullName:' ~ query ~ ' OR username:' ~ query)
    .group('creatives')
    .all() %}
</code></pre>
<p>More info on searching here: <a href="https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/searching.html#supported-syntaxes" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/searching.html#supported-syntaxes</a></p>
<p><strong>Top tip:</strong> You can test your search query directly in the search bar within Craft's admin. e.g. See if <code>fullName:Tom OR username:Tom</code> pulls the intended results.</p>

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Awesome that seem's to work perfectly! I had something similar but it didnt work as expected first time around.

Appreciate it
Tom Byrom
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<p>I have the below. I want to only show results that contain the query in the the username or fullName attributes.</p>

<p>Because currently if I search for say Tom the search results will return users without a username or full name containing the query Tom, but will show a person if the email contains it. I don't want this as emails are not publicly shown and therefore may cause confusion to the user searching. </p>

<p>How would I exclude email from the search criteria or only allow searching from the username or fullName attribute?</p>

<p>The same happens when searching entries - how do I narrow the search to only use the title field for example otherwise the search results can be too broad which is bad for UX.</p>

<pre><code>{% set users = craft.users()
    .search(query)
    .group('creatives')
    .all() %}

{% if users|length %}
    &lt;p&gt;{{users|length }} results:&lt;/p&gt;

    &lt;ul&gt;
        {% for user in users %}
           &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/people/{{ user.username }}"&gt;{{ user.username }}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        {% endfor %}
    &lt;/ul&gt;
{% else %}
    &lt;p&gt;Your search for {{ query }} didn&amp;#39t return any users.&lt;/p&gt;
{% endif %}
</code></pre>

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How to search against a specific field/s, and not every field related to an element?
# How to search against a specific field/s, and not every field related to an element?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-06-16)

I have the below. I want to only show results that contain the query in the the username or fullName attributes.
Because currently if I search for say Tom the search results will return users without a username or full name containing the query Tom, but will show a person if the email contains it. I don't want this as emails are not publicly shown and therefore may cause confusion to the user searching. 
How would I exclude email from the search criteria or only allow searching from the username or fullName attribute?
The same happens when searching entries - how do I narrow the search to only use the title field for example otherwise the search results can be too broad which is bad for UX.
{% set users = craft.users()
    .search(query)
    .group('creatives')
    .all() %}

{% if users|length %}
    {{users|length }} results:

    
        {% for user in users %}
           {{ user.username }}
        {% endfor %}
    
{% else %}
    Your search for {{ query }} didn't return any users.
{% endif %}

**Tags:** search

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2020-06-17. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

You can just limit your search to those specific user fields.
It should go something like:
{% set users = craft.users()
    .search('fullName:' ~ query ~ ' OR username:' ~ query)
    .group('creatives')
    .all() %}

More info on searching here: https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/searching.html#supported-syntaxes
Top tip: You can test your search query directly in the search bar within Craft's admin. e.g. See if fullName:Tom OR username:Tom pulls the intended results.

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: Awesome that seem's to work perfectly! I had something similar but it didnt work as expected first time around.  Appreciate it  

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