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Operation Manual Index
Find Users provides a wide range of options that you can use to search for specific users or to filter your membership. You can also obtain a complete list of members by pressing the submit button without using any of the filters.
Most of the fields are self-explanatory but they are covered below anyway:
Column Description User Name Search by user name. This is one of the best fields to use since it is mandatory (everyone has a user name, but most people dont bother to fill out the discretionary fields in their profiles). You have the following options to refine your search: Starts with (default); ends with; matches; contains. Real Name Search by real name. Email Search by email address. ICQ Number Search by ICQ member number. AIM Handle Search by America Online Instant Messenger username. YIM Handle Search by Yahoo Instant Messenger username. MSNM Handle Search by MSN Messenger username. URL contains Search by website address field of user profiles. Location contains Search by location field of user profiles. Interest contains Search the interest fields of user profiles. Last login is more than X days ago Use this to find people that have not logged in for a specified period. Bear in mind that (depending on the group access rights you have set) people dont always log into your site to when they visit. Last login is less than X days ago Use this to find recent users of your site. Joined date is more than X days ago Useful to filter out your more established members. Joined date is less than X days ago This is useful if you want to filter out new members, perhaps to send them a personal welcome message. Number of Posts is greater than X Use this to find your top posters. Number of Posts is less than X Use this to find infrequent posters. Type of users to show There are three options here that you can use to filter your search results: Only users that accept mail;
Only users that dont accept mail;
All users (default). This relates to an option users selected when they registered their account. Bear in mind that people who chose not to accept mail dont want to hear from you!
Type of users to show There are three options that you can use to filter your search results: Only active users (the default, this means people whose accounts have been activated);
Only inactive users (people who have registered but not yet activated their accounts) and
All users.
Sort by You can use this to sort your search results. Available options are: User name (default)
last login
joined date
number of posts
Order Another field for sorting your search results, you can choose from: ascending order (default) or
descending order
Number of users per page How many entries to show on each page.
Table 2.8. Find Users
