Member - Online Manual

Work in progress, expect frequent changes.

Please see SMF1.1:Members or SMF2.0:Members depending on the version of SMF you are using.

A member is a person who has registered at a forum. It is usually beneficial for a guest to become a member if they intend to post or use the forum more than once. Members always belong to at least one membergroup.

View All Members

This is the default page when going to the Members section of your admin panel. Here you will see a list of all the members on your forum.

The list of users shows this information:

ID - Their User ID.
Username - Their username, the actual name they registered with.
Display Name - The name that is shown to other users.
Email Address - their email address.
IP Address - Their last known IP Address.
Last Online - The last time they were online, in days.
Posts - Their total post count.

The last column is a check box, only select the members you wish to delete. The very top box will check or uncheck all member boxes.

Search For Members

This section allows you to search for members of your forum using many different filters.

Numeric/Date Parameters

These fields allow you to search for specific users or a range, based on the selection of the dropdown and the value you enter in the text box.

The dropdown allows you to select: < (less than), <= (less than or equal to), = (equal to), >= (greater than or equal to), > (greater than)

ID - The User ID(s) of the user(s) you wish to search for (e.g. all users with an ID greater than 1296)
User age - The age range of the user(s) you wish to search for (e.g. all users older than 15)
Posts - The post count of the user(s) you wish to search for (e.g. all users with less than 10 posts)
Join Date - The join date of the user(s) you wish to search for (e.g. all users who joined on 2012-08-05 (05 August 2012))
Last Online - The last date which the user(s) you wish to search for logged in to your system (e.g. all users with who have not logged in since 2012-08-05 (05 August 2012))

Text Parameters

These fields allow you to search on text entries in the user's account. The search allows for wild cards (* and ?)

"Mik*" would return users with a value of Mike, Miks, Mika, Miku, Mikhail, Miklemore, Mikpolopolis, etc. It would not return Mick, Mak, etc. "Mik?" would return users with a value of Mike, Miks, Mika, Miku, etc. It would not return Mikhail, Make, etc.

Username - This will search for the users' login name (the actual name they registered with)
Email Address - This will search the users' email address.
Website - This will search the values that users have entered in the "website" field of their profile
Location - This will search the values that users have entered in the "location" field of their profile.
IP Address - This will search the recorded IP addresses of the user(s)
Messenger Address - This will search the SMF Standard messenger fields (MSN, YIM, AIM, ICQ)

Additional Parameters

Gender - The checkboxes allow you to narrow the search to Male, Female, Undefined or any combination of those three values
Activation Status - The checkboxes allow you to narrow the search to Activated, Not Activated or both.
Membergroups - You can narow the search to users who belong to specific membergroups. (Both normal and post-count-based groups are searchable.)

Usage

You can include one field for a broad search or you can add additional search parameters to narrow down the search. Additional parameters added to the search are processed as AND parameters.

e.g. you could search for all male users under the age of 15 users who have not logged in since 01 January 2013 and have fewer than 10 posts.

Awaiting Approval

This page displays a list of all of the members on your forum that are waiting for their account to be approved by an administrator. This page is only accessible if you have the setting: Method of registration employed for new members set to Admin Approval or are using some other method of registration, but have members that registered when member activation was once required.

The following information is shown on this page, associated with each member that awaits approval by an administrator:

ID - Their member ID.
Username - Their username, the actual name they registered with.
IP Address - Their last known IP Address.
Registered - Their registration date.

On the far right of this page are checkboxes that each correspond with the member they are next to. You can click any of the checkboxes you want and then use the selection box at the bottom of the page to pick what you want to do with the members who you checked.

You can perform the following tasks on the members you select on this page:

Approve the selected members - This activates the selected members' accounts. They will now be able to login and do whatever their permissions set for them allow them to do. Prior to being approved, unapproved members are presented with this message when they try to login: Your account is still awaiting admin approval.
Approve and send email to the selected members - This will approve the selected members' accounts as explained above, but will also email the selected members, notifying them that their accounts were approved.
Approve and require reactivation for the selected members - This will approve the selected members' accounts, however will still require the members' to reactivate their account by email.
Reject selected members' accounts - This will reject the selected members' accounts, making it so they will not be able to login at any point. Note: This will delete the selected members' accounts.
Reject and send email to selected members - This will reject the selected members' accounts, but unlike the above option, will also send the members an email telling them that they were rejected. Just as the option before, this option will permanently delete the accounts of those selected for rejection.

Awaiting Activation

This page displays a list of all of the members on your forum that have not activated their accounts. This page is only accessible if you have the setting: Method of registration employed for new members set to E-mail Activation or are using some other method of registration but have members that registered when member activation was once required. Another way there may be unactivated accounts is if you registered a member through the admin panel and had the checkbox Require user to activate the account checked.

The following information is shown on this page, associated with each member that awaits approval by an administrator:

ID - Their member ID.
Username - Their username, the actual name they registered with.
IP Address - Their last known IP Address.
Registered - Their registration date.

You can perform the following tasks on the members you select on this page:

Activate the selected members - This activates the selected members' accounts. They will now be able to login and do whatever their permissions set for them allow them to do. Prior to being activated, the unactivated members are presented with this message when they try to login: "Your email address needs to be validated before you can login."
Activate and send email to the selected members - This will activate the selected members' accounts as explained above, but will also email the selected members, notifying them that their accounts were activated.
Delete selected members' accounts - This will delete the selected members' accounts, making it so they will not be able to login at any point. Note: Use this with caution as the deleted members' will be permanently deleted.
Delete and send email to selected members - This will delete the selected members' accounts, but unlike the above option, will also send the members an email telling them that they were deleted. Just as the option before, this option will permanently delete the accounts of those selected for deletion.
Remind and send email to the selected members - This will email the selected members' accounts to remind them to activate their accounts.

You can also check for duplicate accounts for accounts waiting approval or activation.

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