To follow up on this; When I have hundreds of users and create a new group and want to assign a lot of them to that group (too many to do manually for each one), how can I select and assign multiple users at a time? I would have thought there would be checkboxes so one could select multiple users in…

If you only plan on doing this from time to time, you could “Bulk Add to Group.” Admin > Groups > Groupname [49%20PM] To get a list of users to manipulate, you can export them from Discourse first: Admin > Users > Export [41%20PM]

If you are operating on hundreds of users at the moment the most efficient way to deal with it would be to use the API. Checkboxes on a list of users is not something we implemented, the use case of going from 0 to a group of 800 users is a bit painful via the UI now, what you can do though is allo…

Well, I see what you’re saying, but if you need to put users into groups very rarely, then writing code to use the API is hardly any more efficient. Consider if you have say 200 users and you want to assign 190 of them to a group. You could then easily select all users with the “select all” feature…

If you want to do it lots of times going forward you want the API, if it’s part of a migration then you could use the Rails console or an import script. If it’s something that you’ll do forever and there’s some trigger that would add them to the group, then you might use a plugin. Oh, look! I wrot…

I think there is a legitimate feature request here for the: https://meta.discourse.org/u page. Like the search and the topic list page we should have a bulk selection tool there that allows you to select a bunch of users and operate on the. (delete, add staff note, set trust level, add to group, adj…

How do I add lots of users to a group efficiently?

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rawtaz February 6, 2019, 12:59am 7

Thanks @omarfilip, I’m marking this as the reply as it’s the closest to a solution, and not that bad of a workaround honestly.

Thanks to you other guys as well!

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