make members searchable by only one specific field

[ahodhellysar]

i’m working on a social job board website .. members are divided to candidates and employees .. i’m using gravity form to handle registration , i have created a registration form for candidates and mapped its fields to buddypress profile fields

1 – the  client have a special request that’s the member can only add/find each others when they have  other member “code”

now, i’m generating a random code for each member in registration , and i can map this random code to any buddypress field i want .. what i need now is to restrict searching to only this field and exclude any other fields .. for example i’m already mapping this code to buddypress name field , but i still can find the user by the username “which it defined by the first and last name” … i don’t want this , i want the profile be only find-able by the field i gonna map the code to

 

2- about users profile url links :

now it’s in this structure domain.com/members/username

a- i want to cancel the members page

b- i want to change the “username” to the random code / buddypress field

so the code be like this domainname.com/buddypressfield

 

i have attached a screenshots i hope they help you figure what i’m talking about above 🙂

thanks in advance 🙂

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