Re: problem to search for a given login in OGo WebUI

> one of the accounts has a username gel. This user also has 'gel' in the 
> nickname field. When I enter gel into the calendar input field, to search 
> for the user gels appointments, then the user is not found and no 
> appointments are shown.
> I can search for gel in the contacts list, and the user in the list of found 
> people.
> When I want to create an e-mail via the webui, and search for gel, then the 
> search got restricted, due to the amount of found/matched entries. Uusually 
> one entry of the search result then contains the resolved account, but it is 
> not in the list. There are only a lot of others found, and 'gel', as  I 
> entered it, is in the list.
> My wild guess is, when I enter the gel into the calendar search field, the 
> search is restricted to an amount of results, 

Yes.

> and the record of the account 
> is just not in the list of found records. Don't know if I'm right here, but 
> if so, is there a way to raise the limit so that I can "find" the user when 
> searching for his login name?
> Meanwhile, as a workaround, I can search for his last or first name, and 
> I'll find him.

Yes, this is a feature, not a bug! :)  Seriously,  we train people to
search by last name.  With tens of thousands of contacts I'm not certain
how otherwise to manage the situation [at least not without a *much*
more sophisticated UI than the WebUI].

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