Hello, I would like to add all members in a new group, but when I try to copy paste a big list of username separated by a comma, I got an error. It works when I try to import 100, but I have 40K members to add.. In the past it was possible to import up to 10K. Any ideas ?

[image] kam44: I would like to mention in a topic (and notify by email) all the members. Maybe just have an announcements category and have everyone set to watch that category? You can add everyone from rails like I suggested, but that’s not going to add new users. Maybe look at the automation plugin and group membership through badges. Looks like you could create a custom badge that would add users with that badge to the group: Discourse Automation

Yea, I’m not sure the UI bulk add likes thousands of users. I think you can do it by creating a new group then using rails console to add trust_level: 0 users to that group. If you decide to go this route, be sure to backup first.

[image] kam44: I would like to add all members in a new group, Why? What problem is this solving? Are you planning to later remove some of them? Why not just use trust_level_0 or trust_level_1? It’s lkely that whatever you are trying to do, adding all users to a group is not a good way to solve the problem. You can do it from rails. I think this would work. group=Group.find_by_name('my_group') User.all.each do |user| GroupUser.create!(user_id: user.id, group_id: group.id) end I wrote a plugin that might help, though it’s not well tested and someone who tried it had trouble. If you’ve got a budget or are brave, you can contact me.

Yea I just use Trust_level_0 anytime I need to target the all members demographic.

[image] Jay Pfaffman: Why? What problem is this solving? I would like to mention in a topic (and notify by email) all the members. Will it work with the Trust_level_0 level group ? Ideally I would prefer create a new group to custom the group name.

ah yes, good point! thanks, I forgot about that setting. :slight_smile:

[image] kam44: I would like to add all members in a new group, but when I try to copy paste a big list of username separated by a comma, I got an error. It works when I try to import 100, but I have 40K members to add… The maximum number of users that you can add at one time to a group’s Add Users form is 1000. Looking at the code, it seems that you should get an error message similar to this if you attempt to add more: “Maximum 1000 users can be added at once.” There has to be some kind of limit, otherwise Discourse risks throwing an unhandled error. To get around the limit, I like the Automation Plugin approach that Jay suggested.

[image] Jay Pfaffman: GroupUser.create!(user_id: user.id, group_id: group.id) Why not use encapsulated interface group.add(user)? Wouldn’t there be potential problems with directly manipulating ActiveRecords in this way?

[image] Jay Pfaffman: Maybe just have an announcements category and have everyone set to watch that category? I’m pretty sure this is the best (and simplest) solution for @kam44’s use-case. But it is very good having knowing how to add folk to a group from the Rails console: this will come in handy for merging large groups, which I’ve had to do on occasion!

How to add all members in a new group?

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Moin September 22, 2023, 4:51pm 8

If you have more than 100 users, you will have to change the max users notified per group mention setting.

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