Extensions: Using the full power of this system to
manage board user lists, and private conference user lists
This system also lets you manipulate the user lists for private
conferences, and entire boards.
Here's a brief description of what else it can do for you.
WebBoard uses three very similar pages to manage the user list for
private conferences, the subscribers for conference e-mail
lists, and the users in a board (the latter is accessible
only to WebBoard administrators).
The key here is that lists of user ID#s are the coin of the
realm.
To see how this works, first install the
system (see below for the installation instructions).
Then create a private conference (if you don't
have one already), and then add a few users to the conference.
Note that in the right frame, you can extract all the user ID#s for
that conference (the users have to be currently enrolled). If
you click on the show user list link and scroll
down in the left frame, you'll see a place where you can paste in
a list of user ID#s, to be added to this conference's user list.
In the right frame, you can also delete users by using a
list of user ID#s.
Finally in the right frame, you can also extract a list of
user ID#s, login names, and first/last names: this list can be
formatted in "commas-and-quotes" format, or in
"tab-delimited" format.
Caveat: the detailed list of users won't necessarily be accurate,
if some users have placed tabs, commas, parentheses, or double
quotation marks within their login names, first names, or last
names. Although WebBoard 5 and 6 are fairly careful about
allowable login names, they exert very little control over first and
last names.
If you're a WebBoard administrator, you can access the users on the
board, by going to the administrator menu, and selecting the "Add
users to board" option. Assuming that none of the
users on your board have any of those forbidden characters (tabs,
commas, parentheses, or double quotes) in their login names,
first names, or last names, you can also get a fairly informative
user list.
Note that the useredit page, and the new user registration pages have
been altered, in order to prevent these illegal characters from
appearing in login names, first names, or last names.
The same hasn't been done for the Add users option: so you can
manually add users with these prohibited characters in their login
names, first names, or last names. Obviously, I don't
recommend doing this.
If you're a WebBoard administrator, and you want to use the
detailed user info. feature, then I recommend that you use my
User DB Batch
Processor to extract the information for all the users
on the board, paste the results into a text editor, and then
check for users who appear to have illegal login names, first
names, or last names. Or, if you have database access,
you can write a very simple SQL query. You can
contact me
if you'd
like help writing it.
Unless
you have a very large number of users, you may not find any users
with tabs, commas, double quotes, or parentheses in their login
or real names. And if you do find some, then edit
their profile information and remove those illegal
characters. From then on, you'll be able to rapidly
extract detailed user information for any current board.
For a more detailed description of these additional capabilities,
please browse to the documentation for the
"cut-and-paste user lists" system, at:
http://www.rs-freeware.org/cu/.
(By reading that web page, you'll understand more about the
"cut-and-paste user lists" system, which has been
entirely incorporated into this system.)
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