Search for that member!
I have received a few requests for member search facilities – a “search for that member” tool. This may be a useful add-on to my amr users lists plugin. In thinking about it, it seems to me that there are a few possible approaches: Eg:
- Search for a particular member within a large community or subscription base
- admin – searching for a member, with “some” data – possibly part of name, or approximate date registered. A short term solution for a partial name search is to have a long “amr-users” list with relevant data displayed, and then click edit/find in your browser – this would then search all the text on the screen and jump to the possibilities.
- users – searching for similar users or members. This is possibly more of a filtering operating. They would probably need to be able to to be able to filter by some data that has been created by a user meta plugin like Register Plus or any of the membership plugins.For example – say class year and/or current location
- Filtering – allow a user or viewer to filter a list returning a sublist, possibly sorted by a dynamic criteria (similar to the point above)
Specifics required
Before working on such a plugin, it would be useful if people would describe in more detail their ideas of a member or user search tool and how they would like it to work. If you are interested in such a tool, please comment on this post.
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3 Comments
December 29th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
This may be an easy way to implement the find-that-member option.
Note the search tool box:
http://www.datatables.net/
January 20th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Hi,
My biggest need is the ability to filter by role. Many of the sites I work with have custom user roles and being able to run reports based on the system role would be helpful. I used to use User Level but it seems that this field has gone missing. Presumably with 2.9 though I have not investigated it fully.
I would not want to have to manage a separate user meta field but will probably use this as a method of creating the lists until a better solution arises.
Being able to run a single report that can be filtered based on role would be really great also.
January 21st, 2010 at 4:58 am
HI Daisy – I agree re the role requirement. I am working on a new version that caters for greater numbers of users and will see what I can do about the role. The problem is that wordpress allows multiple roles per user. The standard wordpress report just serves up the first role in the array allocated to the user. THis is why my plugin previously could only offer a column per role. (And yes it does seem that somehow the user level and the capabilities are not showing up in the plugin. I am flat out with some other work however hope to get back to the plugin soon and will look at these issues then.