To search for a particular user / range of users, click on the
Find link under the
Users section in the admin control panel. The following screen will then appear:
From here, you have two options - the first option is to click on one of the six links at the top of the page to run a standard search:
- List all users
- List top posters
- List visitors in the last 24 hours
- List most recent registrations
- List users awaiting moderation and COPPA users awaiting moderation
- List all COPPA users
Alternatively, you can form to search for a user (or users) matching a certain pattern. The form will allow you to restrict the search based on the following fields:
- User Name contains ...
- User Group is ...
- Email contains ... Parent's email contains ...
- Is coppa user ... (yes or no)
- Homepage contains ...
- ICQ Number contains ...
- AIM Handle contains ...
- Yahoo Messenger Handle contains ...
- Signature contains ...
- User Title contains ...
- Join Date is after ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Join Date is before ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Last Visit is after ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Last Visit is before ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Last Post is after ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Last Post is before ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Birthday is after ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Birthday is birthday ... (yyyy-mm-dd)
- Number of Posts is greater than ...
- Number of Posts is less than ...
- IP Address contains ...
Of course, all these fields are optional - so you can search for a user with whatever information you know. For example, if you ran a search on the vBulletin.com forums for all users with email address
vbulletin.com and user title
developer, the search script will return the following results:
Let's take a look now at the functions of each of the links adjacent to the search result:
- Edit - Clicking this link will take you to a form where you can edit all the user fields (username, password, email address, etc).
- Email Password - Click this link to email the username and password to the user's email address.
- Remove - Click this link to remove the user from the database. Once you have removed a user, all messages posted by the user will now be credited to Unregistered.
- Edit Access Masks - Clicking this link will take you to a form where you can specify the user's forum permissions on a forum-by-forum basis:
If you would like to give the user access to a forum, click the
yes option box next to the relevant forum. If you would like to deny access to a certain forum, click the
no option box next to the relevant forum. If the
default option is selected, the user permissions are inherited from the user group that the user is a member of.