Users Search that ONLY have a specific skill or skills

[xember]

Dear All,

I am trying to query users based on skill. I use the POST /api/v2/users/search function.

Question 1: is there any documentation on this search function? I would like to know how what I can do with the several "types" (EXACT, STARTS_WITH, CONTAINS, REGEX, TERM, TERMS, REQUIRED_FIELDS, MATCH_ALL, QUERY_STRING)
Question 2: I am trying to query users that have one or more skills out a list of skills but NO other skill than those. Is that possible?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Best Regards,

Peter

[Eos_Rios]

@xember

I am trying to query users that have one or more skills out a list of skills but NO other skill than those. Is that possible?

As far as I know there is no way to test for the absence of other values and your best bet is to do something like;

{
  "query": [
    {
      "value": "YourSkillHere",
      "fields": [
        "routingSkills.name"
      ],
      "type": "EXACT"
    }
  ],
  "expand": [
    "skills"
  ]
}

and then use your scripting language of choice to drop any results with more than 1 skill. If you're looking for an exact set of skills the equality test can be increased to only find people who have exactly those 2, 3, 4 skills, but the more complicated your search is the more it becomes additional post-processing logic.

[xember]

Yeah, thought about that too, probably that will involve a lot of querying since there is a limit of 25

[Eos_Rios]

If your needs are particularly complex and not real-time sensitive because your people's skills don't change that frequently it could be more effective to download all users and their skills from the Users API daily to a repository that handles whatever logic you need, instead of doing specific searches over and over.