I am often asked to add multiple people from the main group to a subgroup. Currently this can be somewhat tedious. I have two ideas that I think might make this easier:

1.  Right now I search for each person, check their box, and add them, one at a time. After I click "Add Member", the web interface goes back to the Members page, instead of staying on the Direct Add page. So I have to click "Direct Add' In the left sidebar, and go back to that page. It would be nice if the interface stayed on the Direct Add page. This seems like an easy change.

2. It would be nice if I could do a bulk search. I could search for multiple people, as both names as email addresses. Right now, the search box does an AND of all the search terms, so I can't search for multiple people with different names. Suppose, for instance, that the search box were multi-line: all the terms on a single line would do an AND search, and the results for each line would be OR'd. For example:

Cooper
john.smith@...
Sam Jones

might return:

John Cooper   jcooper@...
Jane Cooper   janec@...
John Smith     john.smith@...
Samuel Jones  sj@...

 After I click "Add Member", the web interface goes back to the Members page, instead of staying on the Direct Add page. ... ... It would be nice if the interface stayed on the Direct Add page.

It would be nice if I could do a bulk search. I could search for multiple people, as both names as email addresses.

Right now, the search box does an AND of all the search terms, so I can't search for multiple people with different names.

Suppose, for instance, that the search box were multi-line:

You can use OR in a search also.  There is an outstanding issue with the search strings though (see https://beta.groups.io/g/main/topic/71860654) and it can help if you put your search string in quotes. Searching for something like "Smith" OR "Jones" OR "Harris" works fine for me.

Indeed, [ Smith OR Jones ] works in the Members search box. But I had tried "OR" n the Direct Add page search box of a subgroup, and there it does not work when trying find either Smith or Jones as an un-added member. This may be a bug and I will open a new topic for that.

Dan

It would be nice if the interface stayed on the Direct Add page. This seems like an easy change.

This is now done. Also, it will now display a flash notice indicating success.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 09:48 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote:

It would be nice if the interface stayed on the Direct Add page. This seems like an easy change.

This is now done. Also, it will now display a flash notice indicating success.

The flash notice is displayed at the top of an effectively blank page so you still need to click the Direct Add option from the left side menu to redisplay the input fields.

Andy, I do not see what you mean. I added myself to a test list, and it went back to the Direct Add page, showing the first page of all the members of the parent group, as it did originally.