You can use a wrapper module to wrap the userlists search mode URL. You can also use something like Components Anywhere to insert the search component view anywhere you like. As long as hotlink protection is disabled you can also create a custom HTML form and just submit as GET to the userlist URL as well to trigger a search. So there's a lot of options available for pulling userlist searching out of the list. We'll be providing a module to do this with CB 3.x more easily.
As the CB community got weird, the extension simply didn't keep up with the mainstream Joomla 5 implementations.
I've no idea what you mean by this. I'm just going to take a guess and assume you're talking about Joomla's smart search?
No we don't integrate profiles with Smart Search because it's a massive privacy violation for profiles. There's no way to enforce privacy controls and access limits on a per field per profile basis. Joomla itself doesn't even offer a smart search plugin for Joomla users for the very same reason.
I don't see how we can reasonably implement profile smart searching without breaking a dozen different privacy laws across the globe. That's why Joomla has only implemented it for static content (e.g. articles). We're still trying to figure out a way to make it work with possibly allowing strictly selecting a set of public data to be searchable, but we're open to suggestions if you have any to deal with the serious problems it has with user data.
For those that don't understand how smart search works is it's basically an indexer. It scans the content, extracts words from the content, and stores those words in the database. So if it scanned profile data it would extract every word from their profile and index it. From there when you make a search it goes against this standardized storage modal. It's extremely limited in what we can do to protect this content. This indexing would have to be re-ran on users profiles every time a profile is updated as well.
krileon
