XF 1.2 User Management Improvements

In the first of our spotlights on new features in 1.2, we're going to be looking at 2 user management improvements in particular. Keep an eye on this forum to see when we post more teasers.

Note that any features we demonstrate here are still in development, so things about them may change before they're released in a 1.2 beta.

User Merging
The first feature is rather important, though fairly simple to explain. In 1.2, you can now merge 2 users. The "source" user will have all of their content assigned to the "target" user and then the "source" user will be deleted.

It's very easy to use. From the user edit page in the admin CP, you can choose to merge:

Then it's just a matter of choosing who you want to merge into:

Bulk User Management
The other major improvement to user management is that you can now take an action on many users at once. Let's see how it works. First, you simply enter the criteria for the users to want to modify:

This is just your standard user search form. As it stands, this form is identical to how it is in 1.1, but we'll be expanding it to give more search options.

Once you enter the criteria and submit the form, you get to see how many users matched along with the ability to view those matches. When you're happy, you can simply choose the action(s) you want to take and submit the form. Done!

There are still some improvements coming to these features to provide more options, but these should hopefully address one of the short comings in XF 1.1.

 

[Dynasty]

This is the stuff i was hoping to eventually see when i bought my license , good work

 

[Andy.N]

I would hope to eventually be able to
Delete all members that has 0 posts and registered between X and Y date.

 

[Luxus]

Will 1.2 have any major template changes?

 

[DRE]

Fudging finally I can merge users. Kinda late in the game though. Had to go about it a different way lol.

 

[swatme]

thanks.

But i guess the most important one is the REPORT MANAGEMENT
it needs one click management. currently 3-4 clicks are needed for the report to be resolved.

 

[Biker]

Ugh. Don't get me started on the report management system.

 

[DRE]

thanks.

But i guess the most important one is the REPORT MANAGEMENT
it needs one click management. currently 3-4 clicks are needed for the report to be resolved.

Yeah forreal!!!

 

[Mike]

And that has nothing to do with this thread, so there's really no point discussing it here. If you have thoughts, best they're posted in the suggestion forum - and there may well be a suggestion for that already.

 

[DeltaHF]

It's great to see you guys focusing on core, administrative functionality like this.

Features which make it easier for us control and manage our communities are critically important to our success, and ultimately the success of XenForo.

 

[Hornstar]

Great core stuff. Love it.

 

[Romchik®]

Great improvements!

vBulletin has a cool search users (many criterias). But only with the search results can't do anything.
A function of mass delete / move users in vB has only 4 search criteria.
As a result, you can search for spammers by certain criteria and can't mass delete them.

I hope, Mike, this point will be much better in XenForo

Ideally, search criteria must include almost all settings/values of profile (Gender, Date of Birth, Custom User Fields, Signature, Messengers, Style, Language, Time zone, etc.).

 

[DRE]

This batch update stuff is dope though. The more I look at it, the more I like it.

 

[DRE]

Wow @ remove signatures and home pages options. Y'all are really going H.A.M. on SPAM.

 

[Jaxel]

Will there be a normalization procedure for user merges and addons? For instance, right now I use username normalization for my addons... so if a username is changed, it will be changed across addons.

<?php
 
class EWRcarta_Listener_Init
{
    public static function listen(XenForo_Dependencies_Abstract $dependencies, array $data)
    {
        XenForo_DataWriter_User::$usernameChangeUpdates['permanent']['ewrcarta_history_username'] = array('EWRcarta_history', 'username', 'user_id');
    }
}

 

[Jeremy]

Dear Mike,

You aren't allowed to post new HYS threads without videos accompanying them.

 

[Carlos]

The part I emphasized is really the problem you're running into and it's something I hope to improve with 1.2 (more extensive search options).

While you're at it, please make sure to include searching by gender, too. I see a lot of spammers registering as female....

These spammers are the profile spam types.

 

[Anthony Parsons]

Great to finally be able to merge users

Absolutely. This is what I love... more admin features to control XF, more permissions to control access... these are what's missing. Public features... XF is near perfect.

 

[erich37]

User Merging
The first feature is rather important, though fairly simple to explain. In 1.2, you can now merge 2 users. The "source" user will have all of their content assigned to the "target" user and then the "source" user will be deleted.

just wondering what will happen to the "Likes" of the "source user" (old user) ?
Will those be re-named to the new user or show as "deleted user" ?

 

[Mike]

Will there be a normalization procedure for user merges and addons? For instance, right now I use username normalization for my addons... so if a username is changed, it will be changed across addons.

The exact location and structure of the variable has changed, but updating an array like that automatically handles username updates, user deletions, and user merging.

While you're at it, please make sure to include searching by gender, too. I see a lot of spammers registering as female....

You can.

just wondering what will happen to the "Likes" of the "source user" (old user) ?
Will those be re-named to the new user or show as "deleted user" ?

They get associated with the target user, though like other situations, the caches may not be updated.

 

[abdfahim]

2 very useful addition ... though I am still waiting for some option which enables me listing all the users with their information in tabular format from admin panel. This will be helpful of bulk deleting of unwanted users based on some criteria (for example, I want to delete all the users who did not provide any country details).