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Luis Valencia
Luis Valencia

Reputation: 34028

search for name and samaccountname at the same time

Currently I have a customized people picker in sharepoint 2010, it searches the search term on the account name, but also on the name.

However its done in 2 different methods. I dont have experience with complex AD queries, but I suppose I can do this in only one and line and with an OR?

What I need is that it matches either, part of the samaccountname OR part of the name

public static DataTable ExecuteNameQuery(string rootPath, string search)
    {
        string filter = "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(name=*" + search + "*))";
        return ExecuteADQuery(rootPath, filter);
    }


        public static DataTable ExecutesAMAccountNameQuery(string sAMAccountName)
        {
            string filter = "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(sAMAccountName=*" + sAMAccountName + "*))";
            return ExecuteADQuery("GC:", filter);
        }

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1218

Answers (1)

T. Fabre
T. Fabre

Reputation: 1527

Yes, you can group and/or operators in LDAP queries using the following syntax, based on your example :

string filter = "(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(|(name=*" + search + "*)(samAccountName=*" + search + "*)))";

That should perform the search on either name or samAccountName.

Additionnally, MSDN has a primer on LDAP queries.

Hope that helps

Upvotes: 3

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