XF 2.3 Bulk update / message users by username

[Sysnative]

Hi,

I'm looking to both bulk update the usergroup and send a PM to a specific list of users. I have the usernames and emails for the users, but they're not in any specific group / don't match any specific criteria in the criteria searcher.

Can this be done in XF2? If not, is there an add-on that adds this functionality?

 

[beerForo]

Create a new group with the permissions you wish to update to, manually add these users to the (secondary) group, and then you can also DM the group via the admin panel.

 

[AndyB]

You might like this add-on:

https://xenforo.com/community/resources/email-users.8496/

 

[Sysnative]

Manually adding the users to the group isn't viable as the list is too long. I'm looking for a way to bulk update the user group.

Any way or add-ons to do this?

 

[Seeker-Smith]

Hi,

I'm looking to both bulk update the usergroup and send a PM to a specific list of users. I have the usernames and emails for the users, but they're not in any specific group / don't match any specific criteria in the criteria searcher.

Can this be done in XF2? If not, is there an add-on that adds this functionality?

Batch update users can do pretty all of that. Then use email users.

 

[Sysnative]

Batch update users can do pretty all of that. Then use email users.

I was hoping so, but either I'm not sure of the correct syntax, or the feature doesn't seem to search for multiple usernames:



Searching like this doesn't return any users - I've also tried a few other syntax versions to separate the usernames.

If there's a way to make this work that would be great. Unfortunately the other filters can't be used as I only have a list of usernames, but there are no shared traits that can be used in the XF user search (aka no shared usergroup / date visited etc).

 

[Seeker-Smith]

I was hoping so, but either I'm not sure of the correct syntax, or the feature doesn't seem to search for multiple usernames:

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Searching like this doesn't return any users - I've also tried a few other syntax versions to separate the usernames.

If there's a way to make this work that would be great. Unfortunately the other filters can't be used as I only have a list of usernames, but there are no shared traits that can be used in the XF user search (aka no shared usergroup / date visited etc).

Without some commonality I don't see a way of doing it other than putting the users in a group.

 

[Sysnative]

If there's no existing way to do this, or an existing add-on, I'll try and modify the user search.

It's probably a niche use case if it hasn't come up before, but ideally something like "User1, User2, User3" etc would return multiple users in the Batch update tool.

I can also try directly modifying the database, but I'd prefer to do it within XF if possible, to avoid any weird states.