What is the nature and description of the request?

The current search criteria defaults in controller don't fit all customer workflows. For example, in the "Users" area the search filter defaults to "Email". It would be nice to have the ability, on a per-user basis, to set the default search criteria.

Why does the customer need this?

At least in the "Users" page, it is useful to search by "Username" and not "Email". Every time that a search needs to be made, the search criteria needs to be changed to "Username". This is error prone and leads to extra time is clicking around the GUI.

How would you like to achieve this?

In all areas of automation controller where there is a search box let the user choose a search criteria and then allow them set it as their default. This would give every user full flexibility to define their favorite criteria.

List any affected known dependencies: Doc, UI etc..

Docs and UI for sure.