diff --git a/src/applications/project/searchfield/PhabricatorProjectSearchField.php b/src/applications/project/searchfield/PhabricatorProjectSearchField.php
index f187444e5d..8b81cb9d15 100644
--- a/src/applications/project/searchfield/PhabricatorProjectSearchField.php
+++ b/src/applications/project/searchfield/PhabricatorProjectSearchField.php
@@ -1,54 +1,54 @@
 <?php
 
 final class PhabricatorProjectSearchField
   extends PhabricatorSearchTokenizerField {
 
   protected function getDefaultValue() {
     return array();
   }
 
   protected function newDatasource() {
     return new PhabricatorProjectLogicalDatasource();
   }
 
   protected function getValueFromRequest(AphrontRequest $request, $key) {
     $list = $this->getListFromRequest($request, $key);
 
     $phids = array();
     $slugs = array();
     $project_type = PhabricatorProjectProjectPHIDType::TYPECONST;
     foreach ($list as $item) {
       $type = phid_get_type($item);
       if ($type == $project_type) {
         $phids[] = $item;
       } else {
         if (PhabricatorTypeaheadDatasource::isFunctionToken($item)) {
           // If this is a function, pass it through unchanged; we'll evaluate
           // it later.
           $phids[] = $item;
         } else {
           $slugs[] = $item;
         }
       }
     }
 
     if ($slugs) {
       $projects = id(new PhabricatorProjectQuery())
-        ->setViewer($this->requireViewer())
+        ->setViewer($this->getViewer())
         ->withSlugs($slugs)
         ->execute();
       foreach ($projects as $project) {
         $phids[] = $project->getPHID();
       }
       $phids = array_unique($phids);
     }
 
     return $phids;
 
   }
 
   protected function newConduitParameterType() {
     return new ConduitProjectListParameterType();
   }
 
 }