Sim
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There have already been requests for batch update of user state - https://xenforo.com/community/threa...set-user-state-of-batch-selected-users.55777/
... and erasing user titles - https://xenforo.com/community/threads/batch-update-custom-user-titles.62455/
... but I feel that many fields in a users profile - especially custom profile fields - should be batch-update-able.
My specific use case is cleaning up old member accounts who are no longer active to minimise spam reports when sending out regular newsletter emails to all users - which is controlled by a custom profile field (select box) which identifies which newsletter they want to receive (or none).
If I was able to change user state, I could also set the user state to Email invalid (bounced) but they haven't actually bounced yet, so I would prefer not to use that.
I have also wanted to be able to invalidate passwords for inactive users, delete signatures for groups of users, and more.
Other fields which would be useful to batch update:
... and erasing user titles - https://xenforo.com/community/threads/batch-update-custom-user-titles.62455/
... but I feel that many fields in a users profile - especially custom profile fields - should be batch-update-able.
My specific use case is cleaning up old member accounts who are no longer active to minimise spam reports when sending out regular newsletter emails to all users - which is controlled by a custom profile field (select box) which identifies which newsletter they want to receive (or none).
If I was able to change user state, I could also set the user state to Email invalid (bounced) but they haven't actually bounced yet, so I would prefer not to use that.
I have also wanted to be able to invalidate passwords for inactive users, delete signatures for groups of users, and more.
Other fields which would be useful to batch update:
- password (delete / invalidate only) - plenty of cases where it would be a wise choice to remove passwords for inactive members to minimise potential damage from a breach (refer to https://haveibeenpwned.com/)
- signature (delete) - we have signature permissions set so that only upgraded members can add one - but once their upgrade expires, their signature remains. It would also be useful to be able to search for users based on whether they have a signature or not.
- receive site mailings - this is another field I could be using to prevent emails being sent to inactive users if I could batch update this setting
- custom profile fields - text box (delete) - while there's not much value in being able to set a text-box custom profile field to an arbitrary value for multiple users, there are plenty of cases where you'd want to batch-delete the contents of a custom text field
- custom profile fields - selection / radio - this is what I really want to be able to do ... batch update the value of a selection or radio custom profile field to one of the allowed values
- custom profile fields - check boxes - this is slightly different to radio / selection ... but the principal still remains - allow check boxes to be turned on or off in bulk for selected users
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