Here's my situation. I added a field "Smoke" on join/edit form. It is a single-selector/radio-button with possible values linked to the built-in predefined "Smoker" list.
On the search form, I added a field "mSmoke" (short for "match Smoke") and made it a multiple-selector/checkbox. I set the "Match with Field" for this field to "Smoke."
I was hoping that this would allow a user to select one option from the list, like "No," but when searching they could select multiple acceptable options, say "No" and "Rarely."
I'm now having doubts that this is the way "Match with Field" works after looking at the "Sex" field. The "Sex" field matches to "Looking For." If I applied the logic above, that would mean that if you selected "Sex" as "Male" for search then it would match all the profiles with "Looking For" set to "Male," which seems backwards.
In short: does the "Match with Field" only apply to things like Cupid Mail and has no bearing on searches?