Configuring search synonyms for user names

You can configure the search feature to recognize synonyms of names for improved search results.

Fastpath:
  • Admin Console > Content > User Synonyms
  • Advanced Admin Console > System > Settings > Search > User Search > Synonyms

You can set up synonyms for the names of users to improves results for user searches. For example, you might want to set up James, Jim, Jimmy or Susan, Suzy, Susie.

Note that by default, new synonyms work only on new content. Thus, the changes become available in ~30 seconds, after the search index is updated.

To set up search synonyms:

  1. Go to the configuration page:
    • Admin Console > Content > User Synonyms
    • Advanced Admin Console > System > Settings > Search > User Search > Synonyms
  2. Under Synonyms, type in a comma-separated list of synonyms for user names.
  3. Click Add Synonyms.

After synonyms are added, the indexing is updated automatically and in ~30 seconds the newly added synonyms will be available in search.