Configuring stop words for user names

For user searches, you can configure a list of words to be ignored in searches.

Fastpath: Admin Console: System > Settings > Search, then User Search > Stop Words

Stop words are the filter out common structure-class words (that is, function words) from search operations, for example, "an", "for", or "of". For user searches, you can set your system to ignore specific words in the community languages.

To configure stop words for user searches:

1. In the Admin Console, go to System > Settings > Search, then open the User Search > Stop Words tab.
2. In Language, select the language for the stop word list.
3. In the text box, type the stop words separated by commas.
4. Repeat Steps 2–3 for each of the languages you want to add stop words.
5. Click Save Settings.
6. Rebuild the index, as described in Reindexing user search.