Fixed User searcher 'secondary group' does not match XF1 behaviour (bulk email/alerts/user search)

Xon

Well-known member
Affected version
2.0.10
When doing bulk user searches (ie user search, email users, alert users, message users), XF1 and XF2 behaviour is different.

In XF1, "Not in secondary groups " user criteria requires that there be no matches to the list.

In XF2, "Not in secondary groups " user criteria requires that at least one group doesn't match.

Note; this behaviour does not match XF2 user criteria for user promotions/notices.

On my dev site when searching for my username and not being a member of 3 groups (of which I am a member of 2 groups but not the 3rd). The finder generates the following SQL;
SQL:
SELECT `xf_user`.*
FROM `xf_user`
LEFT JOIN `xf_user_option` AS `xf_user_option_Option_2` ON (`xf_user_option_Option_2`.`user_id` = `xf_user`.`user_id`)
WHERE (`xf_user_option_Option_2`.`receive_admin_email` = 1) AND
(FIND_IN_SET('39', `xf_user`.`secondary_group_ids`) = 0 OR
FIND_IN_SET('3', `xf_user`.`secondary_group_ids`) = 0 OR
FIND_IN_SET('43', `xf_user`.`secondary_group_ids`) = 0) AND (`xf_user`.`email` <> '')
AND username = 'Xon'
ORDER BY `xf_user`.`username` ASC

The FIND_IN_SET should be ANDed not ORed together for 'not_secondary_group_ids' in XF\Searcher::applySpecialCriteriaValue
PHP:
protected function applySpecialCriteriaValue(Finder $finder, $key, $value, $column, $format, $relation)
{
   if ($key == 'secondary_group_ids' || $key == 'not_secondary_group_ids')
   {
      if (!is_array($value))
      {
         $value = [$value];
      }

      $columnName = $finder->columnSqlName('secondary_group_ids');
      $positiveMatch = ($key == 'secondary_group_ids');
      $parts = [];
      foreach ($value AS $part)
      {
         if ($positiveMatch)
         {
            $parts[] = 'FIND_IN_SET(' . $finder->quote($part) . ', '. $columnName . ')';
         }
         else
         {
            $parts[] = 'FIND_IN_SET(' . $finder->quote($part) . ', '. $columnName . ') = 0';
         }
      }
      if ($parts)
      {
         $finder->whereSql(implode(' OR ', $parts));
      }
      return true;
   }
...
   return false;
}
 
Last edited:
Thank you for reporting this issue. The issue is now resolved and we are aiming to include that in a future XF release (2.0.12).

Change log:
Correctly apply the "not in secondary groups" user search condition (users cannot be in any of the listed groups).
Any changes made as a result of this issue being resolved may not be rolled out here until later.
 
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