Scalable user selection

Hi! This is a real issue, which I provided a work around for by providing hooks for other modules to control how the users get selected. For my site, excluded_users was enough (although this is becoming less true, and I may have to change this in the future). However, I know there is an og_minutes module which restricts the listed members to an organic group, and presumably if you have other ways to want to select users, you can. Alternately, you can just tell it not to track users, and use the "Extra Attendees" section.

I think what's probably needed is something like a pop-up that lets you browse the user list in one pane, and add users to a selection list in another pane. It's essentially like the task of addressing emails. Probably would also be helped by having the ability to define groups of users, refer to them by the group name, and have the module resolve the group into the individual user names (again, just like an email group). I say this, because a lot of minutes are taken in teams where the same collection of individuals can be expected to attend regularly.

I agree, with large sites, the checkboxes are bothersome. Another admin on my site suggested having an autocomplete userbox, similar to the privatemsg module.

I'm going to look for this og_minutes that was mentioned, because that seems like a good idea also.

I'm going to rework how Minutes gets the user list, so this problem will need to be addressed in a different way.