Rimi Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Before the moderating team page separated the lists by user group. Now it's all one big jumbled mess and would be very annoying if you wanted to find a single administrator among a list of 30 moderators whose name starts with the letter S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Ctrl+F -> Type 'S'. Or just hit Page Dn or End on your keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimi Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 Ctrl+F -> Type 'S'. Or just hit Page Dn or End on your keyboard.Hello. Why do you always suggest silly alternative solutions when users bring up valid suggestions that will improve the usability, aesthetic appeal, and overall quality of the software? Please stop it as I do not appreciate it. Thank you. As the page looks now it is ugly. Your solution is a silly approach to solving a problem that has arisen as a result of attempting to fix something that isn't broken. There is nothing wrong with the 3.2 structure and I do not understand why this was changed and why anyone would want to use ctrl+F to find a name over glancing at the top of the screen and expecting to see the administrator list right there. Is it not silly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Charles Posted February 7, 2012 Management Share Posted February 7, 2012 You are bringing up an alternative solution too don't forget :) Nothing wrong with Michael's suggestion either and he's free to bring up solutions just as you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyhoe Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Would be nice to be able to click the headings to at least put them in order of alphabetical, group, etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimi Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 You are bringing up an alternative solution too don't forget :smile: Nothing wrong with Michael's suggestion either and he's free to bring up solutions just as you are.Hello. This is fine. I do not wish to debate the validity of an individual's solution with you. Thank you. I am more concerned with subject of this topic. I think optimization is a silly tradeoff for good design and organization especially when this is a page that doesn't receive enough visits to validate the need for optimization, yet when it is visited it is important to have good structure and organization. Do you disagree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
• Jay • Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 You are bringing up an alternative solution too don't forget :smile: Nothing wrong with Michael's suggestion either and he's free to bring up solutions just as you are. Valid point, but not all forum users are technically inclined (actually, I'd say a great deal of them aren't). The prior format was simple enough for Joe Noob to easily navigate. This one can confuse those not savvy with computers. Alternative suggestion: Provide the ability to sort by category, and make the group names clickable so a list of members in that group are provided (member list filtered by group) when you click the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatsu Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I agree with Rimi. The page just looks ugly. Also it shows information I don't have access to, too. F.e. "Viewing Record: Kernel...". The dropdown has a blank field I can select and then I get a "No permission, entering onyl with Client Account". Minor glitches you should fix. I understand the page doesn't have the highest priority but you should spend some time and make it more userfriendly. Sortable categories as others mentioned already f.e. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jυra Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Turn the column names into links or buttons that reorganizes the list of staff by name, usergroup, and how many forums they moderate at least. The location should be reworded to currently viewing or similar to view currently online staff. Location can easily be confused with their physical location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimi Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 Turn the column names into links or buttons that reorganizes the list of staff by name, usergroup, and how many forums they moderate at least. The location should be reworded to currently viewing or similar to view currently online staff. Location can easily be confused with their physical location.I think "Location" is left over from previous versions where they displayed the Location custom profile field on this page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Hello. Why do you always suggest silly alternative solutions when users bring up valid suggestions that will improve the usability, aesthetic appeal, and overall quality of the software? Please stop it as I do not appreciate it. Thank you. As the page looks now it is ugly. Your solution is a silly approach to solving a problem that has arisen as a result of attempting to fix something that isn't broken. There is nothing wrong with the 3.2 structure and I do not understand why this was changed and why anyone would want to use ctrl+F to find a name over glancing at the top of the screen and expecting to see the administrator list right there. Is it not silly? No, I don't find it silly at all. You and I just do things differently, apparently. I'm greatly sorry I suggested a method that would do what you asked in about a second, I'll try not to do it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyF Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I quite like it as-is. The only concerns I have are the dropdown for forum-level mods could do with a spacing tweak and it should not be showing locations you cannot view as you indicated, that maybe an IPC related concern or simply something to do with each product permission mask. I'll post a quick report about it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan H. Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I don't mind the changes personally, although the list will be quite lengthy on our site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimi Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 No, I don't find it silly at all. You and I just do things differently, apparently. I'm greatly sorry I suggested a method that would do what you asked in about a second, I'll try not to do it again.Hello. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriano Faria Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 My God, now it's worse than it ever was. Everything looks a mess. Keep the group separation... Remove that select menu and use a link or image to an ajax pop-up, just like Quick Navigation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 The reason it was changed had to do with forums with a lot of moderators. We needed to support pagination on this page for those larger sites (as I recall, we had a client with something like 200 moderators or so). I like some of the ideas put forth so far to improve the design. Interested to see what other suggestions are made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett L Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 The reason it was changed had to do with forums with a lot of moderators. We needed to support pagination on this page for those larger sites (as I recall, we had a client with something like 200 moderators or so). I like some of the ideas put forth so far to improve the design. Interested to see what other suggestions are made. I personally would like to see it ordered by member group then user name. They don't have to be in different 'categories', however, I think it looks much more organized if they were at least listed by user group first. Something along these lines might be a good solution to also allow for separate sort criteria. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyhoe Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 That's exactly what I was getting at :) Have it like the members list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimi Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 I recall reading in the tracker that IPS wanted to separate administrative roles from super moderator roles. How about separate pages, or separate tabs? If you have an administrative group without moderating powers (completely viable with IPB) then they're not really a part of the "moderating" team correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyhoe Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 True, i have an account for IPS and accounts for my "techs" group. None of which have moderating powers so showing them on the "moderators" list is not strictly correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis P Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 I'd also say it needs to have ipsBox and ipsBox_container added to wrap the content, but that's something different altogether... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTMEXCALAIBER Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 there is an app for this you guys do know this right ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimi Posted June 14, 2012 Author Share Posted June 14, 2012 there is an app for this you guys do know this right ?http://community.inv...ator-team-page/Well, you bumped a thread that's over 4 months old with an app that's 3 months old. Hopefully you see what went wrong here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miraclesun Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 there is an app for this you guys do know this right ? http://community.inv...ator-team-page/ this is the latest version: just so people are aware :sweat: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valtasar Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 One very simple change to admin/applications/forums/modules_public/extras/stats.php to sort the groups, e.g. for IPB 3.3.4 is: Line: 378 Change: 'select' => 'm.*, m.member_id as my_member_id' To: 'select' => 'm.*, m.member_id as my_member_id,field(m.member_group_id,4,6,14,9,7,12) as group_sort' and Line 395: From: 'order' => 'm.members_display_name', To: 'order' => 'group_sort,m.members_display_name', where 4,6,14,9,7,12 are the group IDs for my custom moderating team, i.e. 4 is the Root admin, 6 is Admin, 9 is Global Mod, 7 Mod etc. Be sure to list all IDs of your team there, otherwise the unknown IDs are listed first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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