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Re: Members in alphabetical order

Posted by GregChapman on Oct 21, 2014; 10:15am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Members-in-alphabetical-order-tp7592053p7592095.html

Hi,
Wheatland Garden wrote
What I hadn’t realized was that alphabetical order would be considered an exotic request.  :-)
In spite of my earlier comments, I do see that could be a feature that could be useful to a good proportion of Nabble users.
It would be simpler to have a feature where a few designated people could shoot an email to all current members via the forum.
As Nabble stands only those with Administrator rights are provided with the menu option:

Options > Users > Manage user & groups.

and switching that feature on is not provided through the "User Permissions" screen.
> It is certainly not intended that you harvest email addresses from the database that you have access to as an administrator.

That’s not what I’m doing, and I’m a bit disturbed that you’ve gotten this impression.
I only use the term "harvest" in a technical sense to indicate that you would need to extract data not intended by Nabble to be used outside of Nabble's services. I fully understand that what you doing is only using a work-around for the limitations of Nabble's product to achieve a legitimate aim for your organisation. I don't think you are doing anything wrong. You shouldn't be disturbed.
 I fear you may have made been misled by some of the things you have read with regard to the email facilities built into Nabble's software.

I’m not clear where you’re getting this idea?
It was, perhaps, too strongly put. I was just worried that you might be becoming frustrated with what Nabble offers. I have found Nabble staff very accommodating of ideas for their product that they foresee would have wide appeal. I think the ability to sort usernames in alphabetical order might have wide appeal or be a trivial fix for them. I also have been frustrated that some permissions are part and parcel of Administrator rights and cannot be assigned to other groups. The "Manage Users and Groups" is one permission that I would like to grant to the "Moderator" group that I have added to the default set on a number of my forums.

To avoid Pedro having to wade through our long correspondence I would recommend that you make two brief posts under new topics in which you quote the URL of your forum and, if you are, indicate that you are prepared to make edits yourself to the macros required if the code is supplied. In one, request the ability to be able to sort alphabetically the names listed under the "People" link, perhaps making sort order a user option on that screen. In the other request that the User Permission screen have a further option added that would control the appearance of the "Manage Users & Groups" on users menus. I will certain add a "Me too" reply to that request. I recall that others have also requested that facility in the past. If you want to more certainty of a speedy response and delivery of those proposals consider paying to join "Premium Support".
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