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Just to add onto this, the site has been set up to display first and lastname and not their login name.

If we can just use the username that should fix it.

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Hi Henry, thanks ive tried that plugin, its not quite what im after.
Ive also tried https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-global-search/installation/ which was just as inconsistent.

We did import all the users through a database import through a custom script, which we suspect might have caused problems. dont know if that helps at all.

[MC-land]

solved it, for anyone wondering how.

Use this instead:
xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Address’, bp_get_member_user_id() );

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Thanks Shane!