Data explorer challenge: Generate list of members by location

On our site, we populate the location field via SSO with the country where the member is based. I had a request this week from a moderator who wanted to alert members in Pakistan about a new resource published specific to Pakistan. He wanted to do this by mentioning all of them by name in a post.

I looked into it and found that I don’t know an easy way to do this via the UI. Location isn’t even provided in user exports which surprised me. Am I missing something?

Data explorer seems the low hanging fruit home for solving this problem. Has anyone created a data explorer query to search the user list by location and spit out a list of usernames who share that location?

A better solution for the longer term to this specific problem might be a new feature to be able to mention users by country somehow, e.g. !pakistan or some such.

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The issue with the location field as it is is that is free text entry - so whilst some people could have put in Pakistan others could have just put in India for example. I would love to be able to use a localised mention system or at least some visibility on where members are from but whilst its free text and not validated or from a drop down its going to prove difficult.

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Thanks for the thoughts. On my site it’s not a freetext field, actually - it’s handled via SSO externally and is always countries. I’m sure many sites do this. In any case this query doesn’t have to look for a perfect match.

Maybe another approach would be to use the user list, which currently only allows filtering by username. An additional filter by profile option would be interesting - e.g. show me everyone who indicates Pakistan in their profile bio or location. And then an admin link to export directly from there. :wink:

All of this would be moot if profile details were included in user export - let me check again to see if I have it right that location is not actually exported. That really surprised me.

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Did you get the country filter working? I would be very interested in seeing it. My members really like to group per country

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Vielleicht verstehe ich die Frage nicht, aber wenn doch, dann

SELECT u.username
    FROM users u
    LEFT JOIN user_profiles up ON u.id = up.user_id
    WHERE location = 'Pakistan'

oder, gleichermaßen,

SELECT username from user_profiles, users
where user_id = id and location = 'Pakistan'

Beachten Sie, dass der Data Explorer keine doppelten Anführungszeichen als Trennzeichen akzeptiert.

Schön! Danke für das (sehr verspätete) Angebot einer Abfrage zur Lösung meines Problems. Vielleicht ist es für andere hilfreich. Ich arbeite nicht mehr bei Namati, wo wir versucht haben, einen Beitrag für Mitglieder in Pakistan zu erstellen. Die Art und Weise, wie wir dieses Problem letztendlich gelöst haben, war die Erstellung eines Insight-Dashboards in WordPress, das wir so eingerichtet hatten, dass es Discourse über das WP Discourse WordPress-Plugin und SSO begleitet. Im Dashboard haben wir eine Ansicht erstellt, die es uns ermöglichte, nach Standort und vielen anderen Kriterien zu filtern.

Wir konnten diese Liste dann in eine Tabelle exportieren und die Benutzernamen oder E-Mail-Adressen abrufen, um sie auf verschiedene Weise in Discourse zu verwenden. Meine bevorzugte Methode war es, jedem Benutzer direkt eine PM zu senden, um ihn über eine für ihn spezifische Gelegenheit zu informieren.

Ich hatte Gelegenheit, Dons Anfrage etwas zu erweitern, um eine Liste von Benutzern, Standorten und E-Mails für alle Benutzer mit einem eingetragenen Standort zu erstellen. Könnte in einigen Fällen interessant oder nützlich sein:

SELECT u.username, u.locale, up.location, ue.email
    FROM users u
    LEFT JOIN user_profiles up ON u.id = up.user_id
    LEFT JOIN user_emails ue ON u.id = ue.user_id
    -- WHERE-Klausel für vollständige Benutzerliste auskommentieren
    WHERE up.location <> ''
    ORDER BY up.location
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