Ability to create a user group with the "inverse" of users with an email domain

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I want to create a user group that is everyone except those with, say, @domain.com. Is this possible today in Discourse?

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I’m fairly certain that you would need a custom plugin.

I think it would be pretty easy, an hour or two, depending on the details like how easily it can be configured and if there are specs.

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Thinking more…not only would this be a great feature, but also the ability to create a dynamic user group based on a data explorer query.

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Or be able to use badge sql to award a badge that would add someone to a group. That would be pretty easy too.

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I believe email addresses are sent in webhook payloads when a user account is created, so could this also be implemented using webhooks and the API (e.g. for sites hosted by CDCK that can’t use badge SQL)?

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Yes, I confirme they are. :slight_smile:

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So you could use some automation tool to update groups like Trigger a Zapier task with Discourse Webhooks. That could be a lot of requests for Zapier to handle, so it could get expensive.

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What do you do with everyone sans a domain/group? Knowing how you’d use that group will flesh out this feature. :slight_smile:

If you are going to get webhooks involved, I would add everyone to the target group, create a second programmatic group with domain.com auto-added, and then only fire off webhooks only on user events from the second group, which removes those accounts from both groups.

I… spend a lot time budgeting webhooks. :sweat_smile:

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My immediate use case was creating a user group of all users minus employees.

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