How to Search for Custom Profile Fields in the User Manager (Non Admins)

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DESCRIPTION

While the other solution “How to Search for Custom Profile Fields in the User Manager (Admins only)” worked for Admin users only, this solution allows non-admin users to perform a custom search in the Sitecore user manage.

WHY DO WE HAVE TO IMPLEMENT TWO DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS?

The Sitecore.Security.Accounts.UserDelegation class  implements the GetManagedUsers() function as shown below:

public virtual IEnumerable GetManagedUsers()
{
  if (this._user.Profile.IsAdministrator)
    return (IEnumerable) UserManager.GetUsers();
  else
    return this.DoGetManagedUsers();
}
 
private IEnumerable DoGetManagedUsers()
{
   return new DomainsWrapper(this.GetManagedDomains()).GetUsers();
}

If the context user has an Admin profile and executes a search the Sitecore calls the UserManager.GetUsers() that we have already customized.

If the context user is not an admin then DoGetManagedUsers() is called. This function returns a subset of the total users based on domains.

It will retrieve users on all domains specified in the Domains.config file located under your App_config/Security.

<domain name="sitecore" ensureAnonymousUser="false" />
  <domain name="extranet" />
  <domain name="default" isDefault="true" />

 

SOLUTION

On Domains.config file we need to specify our class that will override the GetUsersByName() function and also specify the assembly file where this class is declared.
<sc:templates>
    <!--<domain type="Sitecore.Security.Domains.Domain, Sitecore.Kernel">-->
    <domain type="BusynessLayer.Pipelines.UserManagerCustomSearchNonAdmins, BayerSocial.SBL">
      <ensureanonymoususer>true</ensureanonymoususer>
      <locallymanaged>false</locallymanaged>
    </domain>
  </sc:templates>

The solution below is going to allow a non-admin user to perform a custom search in the Sitecore user manage. As explained in the other article the CPF is a Brazilian document but you could search for EMAIL or other fields. By specifying the words “CPF:” the search will be executed.

class UserManagerCustomSearchNonAdmins : Domain
    {
        public override IEnumerable<User> GetUsersByName(int pageIndex, int pageSize, string search, out int total)
        {

            var domain = AccountPrefix.Replace("\\", string.Empty);

            if (search.Contains("cpf"))
            {
                search = search.Trim().Replace("cpf:", "").Replace("*", "");

                //if no CPF typed then return empty (not NULL)
                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(search)) { total = 0; return new User[] { }; };

                var u = Busynesslayer.UserProfile.Index.CustomProfileIndexManager.GetUserByCpf(search);

                if (u == null) { total = 0; return new User[] { }; };

                //return user found
                var users = new List<User>();

                if (u.Domain.Name == domain) users.Add(u);

                total = users.Count();

                return users;

            }
            else
            {

                MembershipUserCollection usersByName = Membership.FindUsersByName(search, pageIndex, pageSize, out total);

                var list = new List<User>();

                foreach (MembershipUser membershipUser in usersByName)

                    if (membershipUser.UserName.Contains(domain))

                        list.Add(User.FromName(membershipUser.UserName, false));

                total = list.Count();

                return list;

            }
        }
    }

Any questions please feel free to contact me.

Regards

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