filter by role
richard.e.morton - June 8, 2008 - 13:15
| Project: | Advanced User |
| Version: | 5.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | postponed |
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Description
Hi,
I am very intrested in this module as I see it as a great way to find and contact a subset of users. How close is this module to being ready for production use?
Also could you confirm if the module supports filtering a user by one of the roles that a user has? If it doesn't do this that would be a great addition. I think there is a patch possibly showing some of the code required for doing this, but integrating it into advanced user would be fantastic.
Thanks for your help and all your hard work..
Richard
#1
oh, patches I saw when searching for this functionality is here
http://drupal.org/node/82002
http://drupal.org/node/63422
#2
Yes, even the standard user module will allow filtering by role.
Before, I release I will need to discover the method for allowing me to order by the profile fields. Also, I need more testing on the profile field value selections. However, the module is functional for selecting users and performing actions.
#3
erm... sorry for being dense but I can't find the standard feature to filter by role, could you tell me where it is?
thanks
R
#4
admin/user/user
In the "Filter users by" select the radio named "Role" and choose the role that matches what you want to filter by. Advanced User has an advanced filter as well and you may want to select roles other the "is equal to".
#5
ok. sorry yes...
What I need is the ability allow users (authenticated) to find users based on what role they hold, then contact them... i.e. we have a role for every position in our organisation based on the groups (around 50). That way you can find the Chairman of a specific group or the membership secretary and contact them (our roles are specific to a group so there are roles for both Southampton Chairman and London Chairman and London Committee member etc)... a bit like an online directory. It would be even better if you could contact all users with that role with a single form/email sent.
Do you know a way of doing this, sorry to be a pain.
Thanks
Richar
#6
Does http://drupal.org/project/og help?
#7
Hi There,
We already have OG installed and this is what powers all our subsites but it does not allow searching for a user by role, at least that I know of.
thanks anyway... any other ideas?
Rich
#8
Let me give it some more thought. One of the things I have in mind for version 3 of this module is to incorporate OG data. I'm just building an OG site myself and I think I know what you want; which I believe to be a filter by OG group and user role. I'm a closer to what you envision?
#9
ok, cool.
I am not sure I have explained myself, so let me have another go.
Our site is for members of a nationwide activity club in the UK (www.plusgroups.org.uk) we have quite a lot of modules installed to both ease administration but primarily to make the site nice and interactive. Being an activity organisation we have forums of discussions, multiple locations (groups, through organic groups), an official structure and of course a calendar of events (with events module).
The organisation is represented in taxonomy. forums, organic groups and roles. Each committee post, at each of the three organisational levels is represented as a role creating a lot of roles.
Each role has different rights. I would like to be able to limit permissions based on the location in the site, I plan to do this with og user, but there is a bug that I need to look at.
Cause we need to aid communication (and committee posts can change twice a year) we need a quick way to contact people in these roles. So for non-administrators but authenticated users I would like a way to look up users based on a role list in a dropdown.
Then I would like to be able to contact all the users with that role or select a single person with that role and contact them. I think this would make it a very comprehensive contact site.
We're really agressively looking to grow as an organisation and this new site is one step in that direction.
Anyway, thanks for your time with this and thanks for your help.
Rich
#10
Hi,
Thanks for considering this, I notice it is postponed, which is good cause it hasn't been "closed" ;-)
however, so I can set expectations could you let me know, when you do, if this will make it into a version, and even some sort of timescale would be really helpful, even if it is... a year out.
thanks
Richard
#11
I have no time table at the moment to implement any requested features without patches. There is one person providing me patches for some OG features that I need to find time to test. The other item I have on my plate is to port to DRUPAL-6. I will begin looking at requests without patches after that.