Allow forum Administrator to export the member list (with all details) to Excel?

adg at 04h54

Mar

2009

Allow forum Administrator to export the member list (with all details) to Excel.
I mean the information that you see in the profiles (including the fields of personalized fields) not some top secret info that forumation keep in the DB...

I think that a forum admin should be able to handle the info of his own members easily and export that info to external excel file is the easiest option and require minimum development.

1 Darren1, on 28/03/2009 at 04h58

NO.

Were not allowed to access the database, why would we be able to do this?

Im sorry, but its a no from me.

2 adg, on 28/03/2009 at 05h14

Because you may want to have access to the information of your own forum members....

I think that a forum admin should be able to handle the database of his own members easily and export that info is the easiest minimum development option.

3 RoxyChick, on 28/03/2009 at 15h58

I think it could be a good idea. I mean it would only need to have details that we can see anyway (username, email address, reg date)

Would be a great way of handling users etc.

4 Rin, on 29/03/2009 at 03h35

there's some good stuff, and some bad. i can't decide.

5 vvw, on 29/03/2009 at 14h18

I think this is a brilliant plan. At the very least, if anything went wrong (like the site disappearing and backups failing), the Admins could then contact members to let them know what's going on and when a new site is up and running.

Vote yes from me!

6 adg, on 29/03/2009 at 14h55

You just gave me an Idea of another feature. Thanks Smile

7 Guest, on 29/03/2009 at 18h42

I agree with Darren, we're not allowed to access the database, which asks why would we be allowed to do this...

8 MrMario, on 29/03/2009 at 19h43

We cant even have access to the database so why would they give us this access. If Forumotion gives us the access to the database then sure why not.

But till then no.

9 adg, on 29/03/2009 at 19h46

Once again - I meant the information that you see in the profiles (including the fields of personalized fields) not some top secret info that they keep in the DB...

10 vvw, on 30/03/2009 at 06h57

I'm not sure why some people think this is so bad.... in my mind all that would be needed in an export would be the username and an email address. In fact I would be pretty happy just to have a list of email addresses. Others may have other needs in such a list... but the email addys are already available to us admins, so I can't see what the problem is... vote yes! Smile

11 Doctor Inferno, on 30/03/2009 at 12h05

Voted yes! Would be useful we we need to graph out some data etc.

12 joelj1964, on 02/11/2010 at 20h59

I vote yes. As already noted, the information which exporting would posses, would not contain anything not already available to the forum administrator. Forumotion does not furnish the members of a forum. It takes long hours, hard work and dedication to build a substantial member list. These members belong to me and my forum. Not forumotion.

13 fredhoggin, on 01/06/2011 at 17h40

Voted Yes. I would like to export all my members user names and email addresses. The Reason? because the newsletter we have on Forumotion is now useless, as all mail to members with Hotmail & Live has been blocked if it comes direct from the forum. Yes I know "tell them to accept mail from Forumotion" but in my opinion it should work.

This is a great idea. thumleft

14 prussianking, on 04/06/2011 at 02h12

I agree with this suggestion. As long the information within the exported list is purely stuff wI can see no issue with it.

15 BA_admin, on 05/06/2011 at 20h38

fredhoggin wrote:Voted Yes. I would like to export all my members user names and email addresses. The Reason? because the newsletter we have on Forumotion is now useless, as all mail to members with Hotmail & Live has been blocked if it comes direct from the forum. Yes I know "tell them to accept mail from Forumotion" but in my opinion it should work.

This is a great idea.

I agree. Also when I send a newsletter via Forumotion, it comes out really distorted even if I carefully checked the codes and even if it looked really perfect in the preview. It would really help to be able to export email addresses. Either that or fix the newsletter in the admin panel.

16 Guest, on 05/06/2011 at 22h46

i disagree

17 Caihlem, on 06/06/2011 at 10h21

No way!

What's to protect the users' e-mails if they're free to access that easily?

No No No and again NO!

Plus, I've sent fancy newsletters myself before. It is possible to send them correctly, so if it's not working, just keep trying Wink

18 ElMuggs, on 17/06/2011 at 17h06

Dare I point out that one of the assumptions upon becoming a board admin is that you are automatically entrusted with the users details and to keep them safe?

I could certainly see a use of being able to download a zipped copy of the member list for backup in the event of forumotion going offline suddenly.
or belly up. From there it becomes the responsibility of the Admins themselves to ensure the data is used properly and kept secure.

It's also important for spam management to be able to keep track of email accounts that may have caused issues in the past so that in the event of creating a new forum you can pre-block any offending ones from day 1, or for forums that 'trim' their member list so that former members can have a backup if they're accounts deleted.

19 Irian, on 18/06/2011 at 12h25

maybe

20 CPInsider, on 22/07/2011 at 19h05

Thats a yes from me. Also to the people about the email and dob they had the option not to give it you when the they registered by not registering.