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  2. JRACLOUD-16029

Search user properties when searching a user with the user auto-completion functionality

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      The user browser's auto-complete feature is great, but can be even better. I propose improving it (along with a setting) to enable searching users based on their properties. A simple use case could be that we have an additional username (or say why not a phone number) attached to the user as a property. When selecting a user using the auto-complete functionality one would want to be able to use these properties when searching a user.

      Say John Smith (jsmith) has a phone number defined using the property "phoneNumber" with a value "12345". When searching for him using the auto-complete feature, one could use any of the following (the last one being the new feature):
      John
      Smith
      jsm
      123

      This should be relatively easy to implement, as this only requires adding a bit of code to the DefaultUserPickerSearchService's userMatches function. The user object is already fetched so we already have the properties in the object.

      Adding a setting to enable/disable searching these properties would require a bit more coding but would still be fairly trivial to implement.

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              790cb4f9dbbe Ivar Ekman
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