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Office365Users.SearchUser() returns blank but the person does exist in the organization

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I have a text box named "name4" that stores the name of a person in my organization, and in another Gallery Item, I put the Items property as, Office365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm:name4.Text}) in order to lookup at person. The Items function did not find any data regarding the input name, but that person does exist in my organization. That formula works for everyone else except one person, and I am wondering what has caused that problem.

 

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    eka24 20,925 on at

    Are you saying the Office365Users.SearchUser({searchTerm:name4.Text})  works for some but not others?. How many users do you have

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    Community Power Pla... Microsoft Employee on at

    I figured out that my text box has an extra space at the end of their names, therefore the system didn't recognize the User at all. I removed it, and it works, thank you!!

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