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.

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.

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.

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

Возможно, я не понимаю вопрос, но если понимаю, то:

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

или, что равносильно:

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

Обратите внимание, что Data Explorer не принимает двойные кавычки в качестве разделителей.

Отлично! Спасибо за (очень запоздалое) предложение решения моей проблемы с помощью запроса. Возможно, это будет полезно и другим. Я больше не работаю в Namati, где мы пытались настроить таргетированный пост для участников из Пакистана. В итоге мы решили эту задачу, создав панель аналитики в WordPress, которую мы настроили в связке с Discourse, используя плагин WP Discourse и SSO. В панели аналитики мы создали представление, позволяющее фильтровать данные по местоположению и многим другим критериям.

Затем мы могли экспортировать этот список в электронную таблицу и извлечь имена пользователей или адреса электронной почты для использования в Discourse различными способами. Мой предпочтительный метод заключался в том, чтобы отправить каждому пользователю личное сообщение, чтобы сообщить им о возможности, актуальной именно для них.

Мне довелось немного расширить запрос Дона, чтобы получить список пользователей, местоположений и адресов электронной почты для всех пользователей, у которых указано местоположение. Это может оказаться интересным или полезным в некоторых случаях:

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
    -- закомментируйте предложение WHERE для получения полного списка пользователей
    WHERE up.location <> ''
    ORDER BY up.location