Firstly, I would like to congratulate you on an excellent module. Here are some of the things that I would like to see incorporated.

1) In Filters there should be an option to display by Taxonomies (Vocabulary and Taxonomy terms), rather than simply roles

2) Taxonomy display should also be Automated -- i.e. If a user has a certain Interest, then there should automatically be and automated "Members Page" dedicated to that taxonomy term without Admin having to set up a members page for each one of those taxonomies

3) some CSS variables so that that people can customise the display according to their theme

4) in Add Fileld a link to each User's blog

5) Right now Username is displayed in the first column, regardless if I choose to have Picture or other fields before it.

6) There should also be an icon option to "Add to my Buddylist"

7) There should be an icon option that link's to "contact this user" page (an envelope or something) -- of course IF that user has his/her contact form enabled

8) At the top of the list-table display there should also be one or more drop-down Filter(s) or even a freeform-autocomplete Filter with whatever taxonomy vocabularies, so that one coul narrow down the search.

I know that this is quite a long list... but that's because I'm so excited about its potentials and the possibilities that this module offers.

thank you

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wmostrey commented

With the taxonomy you mean incorporation of the taxonomy_user module? That certainly is a possibility. I will be adding more fields, that what I'm doing now next to some bug-fixing. Thanks for the comments, you have some great ideas.

You assigned the ticket to yourself, does that mean you will be contributing code for this or is that a mistake?

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drupalina commented
Assigned: drupalina » Unassigned

sorry about the assigning of the ticket -- I'm a newbie here and just wanted to make sure my name appears in case you wanted to contact or track me.

With regards to Taxonomy_user, I'm still trying to get my head around that module -- it doesn't quite do what it sais on the tin. It just allows users to assign their own tags (taxonomy terms) to various content types.

It seems like what I had in mind is totally different: say for instance there are Users who are interested in Cats, Dogs and Monkeys (vocabulary1), which they list in their interests in Profile page, but which also happen to be taxonomy-terms that govern the systemisation of various Content types. On MembersPage it would then just show users with a summary of Interests. (you could also add a filter to filter out all the users who are interested in Monkeys. OR you could add several filters to filter out all users who are interested in "Monkeys" AND "Cats" (vocabulary 1), AND who are from "Canada" (vocabulary2) -- Do you see what I'm saying?) In addition, when you click on "Monkeys" it will take you to the homebage of that Taxonomy-Term --- i.e. another table (maybe created by taxonomy_dhtml or Directory or whatever module) which would look like this http://drupal.org/node/159647

The major difficulty is the fact that User's are not Nodes. Even if User Profiles and Content-types have identical values for taxonomy terms it is very difficult to get them displayed on the same page. This presents multiples problems on multiple levels, and I can see that it could present problems for implementation of point 2 that I raised.

I just think that when you display a User (who is also a real person) it is important to display his Interests (which are also linked to many content-types). Like this you can link a multitude of content types to a particular. So far, thanks to your excellent module, I have created a members page which diplays some fields (Interests) from their Profile, but the realm of User-interests and Taxonomy-terms still remains permanently separated from each other.

Please read this http://drupal.org/node/159647 to see the problem that I'm highlighting. And I was hoping that your module is going to resolve this problem.

thanks again

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wmostrey commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

You issue with the user/node/taxonomy can easily be solved by theming the user page. You can there change the link that goes to other people with the same intrest to the taxonomy list of that term, or add that link next to it. If you have issues with this, it's best to create a forum post about it. I'll be glad to help you with it there.

Since this is the main request in this issue, I'll close it since this does not directly affect the members module. The suggested fields (contact user, user's buddy list) will be implemented in due time.