Make substrings of the name in dropdown selections of recipient to be searchable

[FergusMok]

Description of feature/enhancement

Context
When selecting students from a drop-down, there may be many students. If I know the recipient in advance, I would like to quickly type the name from the options and get the selection.

Problem
Currently, the code-base supports for searching only if I type the start of the name.
The problem is when I'm trying to search for a surname, or for example in the screenshot, their first names are prefixed with the section / team names. This makes the search essentially useless.

Being able to search with some sort of substring of the name (all possible substrings, or substrings separated by spaces) will help improve the submission user experience.

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[malimsZen]

Can I take a look at this issue?

[FergusMok]

@malimsZen Yes, nobody has claimed the issue, feel free to open a PR!

[glizondo]

Hello, @malimsZen please, let me know if you end up not working on this issue, I would like to work on it if that is ok

[Akshay1018]

Hi @FergusMok , can you assign this issue to me? I can solve this problem by this weekend and keep you updated.

[FergusMok]

@Akshay1018 Let's give @malimsZen some time to work on it as he claimed it first

[Akshay1018]

Ok @FergusMok , let me now if the issue if not taken up by @malimsZen So, that I can take it up.

[malimsZen]

Hi @Akshay1018 , feel free to take up the task. After evaluating the issue I saw I'm not a perfect fit to offer a solution to the issue.

[Akshay1018]

Hi @FergusMok, please assign this task to me. Thanks.

[FergusMok]

@Akshay1018 Please feel free to go ahead and open a PR for the issue

[Akshay1018]

Thanks @FergusMok

[shivam-102]

@FergusMok Can I take up the task?

[FergusMok]

@Akshay1018 Will you still be working on the task? If not, another person has opened a PR for it, and we'll proceed to review it.

[shuklaom]

Hello, I am new to this repository and I have a question.

Instead of searching for the surname of the recipient, would it be possible to search for an associated email address or a unique identifying number that is linked to the recipient? This approach could help eliminate the possibility of confusion in situations where there may be two people with the same name on the same team. It would be difficult to determine which recipient is which student by simply searching for their name in such cases.

[AtulYadavCodes]

can i take this issue

[KenaiiDev]

Hi. Can I take this issue or are there someone working on it?

[DizzyG123]

Anyone taking a look at the issue at the moment? I would like to work on this.

[mingyuanc]

@DizzyG123 sure!

[namrataajmeri16]

Hi @FergusMok . Is anyone working on this issue? I can take up if no one is working rightnow.

[domoberzin]

hi @namrataajmeri16 , there is an existing PR open for this in #13097 , and there are also others above who are keen to take on the issue. Let's wait for a couple more days to see if there's any updates on the existing PR. Meanwhile you can look at other issues to take up

[Nkovaturient]

Hello, I am new to this repository and I have a question.

Instead of searching for the surname of the recipient, would it be possible to search for an associated email address or a unique identifying number that is linked to the recipient? This approach could help eliminate the possibility of confusion in situations where there may be two people with the same name on the same team. It would be difficult to determine which recipient is which student by simply searching for their name in such cases.

Agree! Good suggestion. tryna work on it!

[Abirami04M]

Hey, is the issue solved? Can I work on it if it's not done yet?

[ProgrammerKJ]

Same question here if this is not solved, I would love to solve it!

[Harshitkant21]

Hi, can i take the issue or someone working on it?

[Kunal-Awasthi02]

Hello Sir I have an suggestion
just assign a enrollment id as a primary key to each student and instead of searching using name
try to search using enrolment id.

[henriquepaes1]

Hello! Considering that it's been one month since the last update, and the previous PR was closed due to inactivity, I'll work on this issue.
I would appreciate to know if there's anything I need to know other than what the development guides specify.

[henriquepaes1]

I was able to set up the development environment and get the application running locally. However, the screenshot shows version V9-0-0-b4 in the bottom left corner. When I run locally, I can only get v8-0-0, that does not change when I manually change the version entry in the build.properties file. As a result, I haven't been able to reproduce the issue scenario because there isn't a dropdown to select a student. Instead, there are several inputs for all the students in the group. Can anyone guide me on how to reproduce this scenario?

[OZLEMCITCI]

Does anyone is working in this issue? @FergusMok May I start ?

[GraceXiehahaha]

Hi, I can see that this project is still open. I am a beginner and very interested in this one, could you please assign me? I have some thoughts and would like to give it a shot. Many thanks in advance.

[sathrajith]

can i take this issue

[vijayluxmimaddheshiya]

Hi , can i take this issue

[Adeeth101]

@FergusMok I am a student at the Australian National University. I am part of a team working on open source projects like this one. We are all new to this repository and would love to contribute to this issue. I see that there are no open MRs as of now so I assume there is no problem in going ahead with this issue?

[Wieln]

Hi @FergusMok, it's a student group(=3) new to TEAMMATES and are interested in this issue.
We saw that there’s already an open PR, but we’d still like to contribute—maybe by offering a different approach or idea :]
Can we try it as well? Thanks!

[damithc]

@Wieln TEAMMATES is not very active during this period, due to most of our dev team being busy with courses. So, responses to PRs will be very slow. The project expects to become active again around 2025 January.

[Wieln]

@Wieln TEAMMATES is not very active during this period, due to most of our dev team being busy with courses. So, responses to PRs will be very slow. The project expects to become active again around 2025 January.

Thank your for update!
And that's okay! We can wait for your team to have time to handle the PRs. We just want to give it a shot :]]

[saraitmanar]

Hi, we would like to contribute to this issue, is it still open?

[XiangyuTan-learning]

HI, can I choose it as my first issue?