Creating a filtered member directory…

  • Okay, so I want to create a member directory (actually, three of them) that only list members that are part of a particular group (not an online group).

    I added a custom field named “Group” to the profile form, a drop-down with three values: “red,” “green,” and “blue” (for testing).

    When I create a member directory form, I can allow users to filter the form on the value of group, but no sequence of checking boxes in the settings seems to present a pre-filtered list. If I add a new filter in the “admin filtering” line, the drop down allows me to choose “Group” (or any other field name) but there is no place to enter the value that I want to filter on!

    Am I missing something simple?

    –don

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  • @theotherdon From what you’ve written, perhaps look at using different roles rather than a custom field.

    Thread Starter theotherdon

    (@theotherdon)

    Thanks for your response!

    I notice that, if I choose “roles” as a filter, a menu appears wherein I can choose which role to filter on. This is how I would expect the function to work.

    Using roles will not work for me-each group (departments within our organization) contains people who are admins, editors, contributors, and members.

    I notice that, even though the information button shows a hint that says “…e.g., only show members from the USA” that selecting country does not give a list of values for the filter.

    I am beginning to suspect that this function has not been fully implemented.

    –don

    @theotherdon Sorry, I should have elaborated; I didn’t mean to use “roles” in the traditional meaning (as in to define capabilities) but to take advantage of the fact users can have multiple roles and use it as an additional filtering method.

      So, you can set up required UM “roles” (i.e. departments) for your use case.

      Then, add one of the predefined “Roles” fields (dropdown or radio buttons) to the profile if you want to let the users do the work and select their department (or you can do it in the backend) and then

      you can create a directory based on that “role”.

    See screenshot of a quick demo I just set up of using role as departments.

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