View Members search matches entire string for the Position field instead of each word

[mattermod]

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/issues/27283

Summary

In a channel's 'View Member' search, when it searches in the position field, it does a match from beginning of the string and not the beginning of each word. E.g. For 'Systems Engineer at Some Company', 'Systems' or 'Systems Engineer' matches, but 'Engineer' or 'Company' would not. I'd expect it to do word matches.

Steps to reproduce

Mattermost Server v9.8.1 and community.mattermost.com
Mattermost Desktop v5.7.0
Search in a channel's 'View Members' search box. When it searches the Position field, it does an match from beginning of the string search. E.g. For 'Systems Engineer at Some Company', 'Systems' or 'Systems Engineer' matches, but 'Engineer' or 'Company' would not. I'd expect it to do word matches.

Expected behavior

I'd expect it to do matches on words as it does withe the other fields. Re the example above, 'Company' and 'Engineer' should match.

Observed behavior

Search only matches from the beginning of the Position field's string.

Possible fixes

Not sure where the in code the code this is , but change the type of search for the position field so that word matches work.

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JIRA: https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/MM-58562

[MattSilvaa]

Hi! I'm interested in picking this one up

[MattSilvaa]

PR is up 👍🏻