Sledge FTB Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 Hi all, We have some fixed search links in our menu bar, mainly to show several user groups. Something like: https://www.dummysite.com/search/?&type=core_members&joinedDate=any&group[8]=1&group[4]=1&group[26]=1&group[20]=1&group[6]=1&group[3]=1&group[25]=1&group[7]=1&group[21]=1 Since recently they are not working anymore and just refer to https://www.dummysite.com/search/ Tried it with several other searches, the actual live search works, but once you paste the URL it just goes to above default URL. Can somebody confirm this behavior and/or has a solution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledge FTB Posted July 31, 2019 Author Share Posted July 31, 2019 Seems like it is due to missing the "&q=" attribute in the link. If I change https://www.dummysite.com/search/?&type=core_members&joinedDate=any&group[8]=1&group[4]=1&group[26]=1 to (added "&q=a") https://www.dummysite.com/search/?&q=a&type=core_members&joinedDate=any&group[8]=1&group[4]=1&group[26]=1 it will work, but only result in members with a trailing A in their name. Tried several obvious options to show all (e.g. *, "", '', etc) but that doesn't seem to work In short, I can't provide an URL to show all members of a certain group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledge FTB Posted July 31, 2019 Author Share Posted July 31, 2019 🤔 adding a single space as search term seems to create a workaround If I change https://www.dummysite.com/search/?&type=core_members&joinedDate=any&group[8]=1&group[4]=1&group[26]=1 to (added "&q=%20") https://www.dummysite.com/search/?&q=%20&type=core_members&joinedDate=any&group[8]=1&group[4]=1&group[26]=1 that will do the trick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 I would just use &tags=X since tags is ignored for member searches. You were using an undocumented feature that had to be adjusted to resolve an issue. There is still a workaround though, as you've found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledge FTB Posted August 1, 2019 Author Share Posted August 1, 2019 15 hours ago, bfarber said: I would just use &tags=X since tags is ignored for member searches. Splendid, that might even work better. Had no idea it was an undocumented feature. It worked for a long time till recently. On the same hand, it seems fair to me that a generated search URL can be re-used (shared or saved as favorite). We use them in our menu bar, but the principle stays the same. Anyway, our issue is solved with a workaround and maybe the generated URL will be corrected in future releases. Thank you for your reply @bfarber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fast Lane! Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 On 7/31/2019 at 10:21 AM, bfarber said: I would just use &tags=X since tags is ignored for member searches. You were using an undocumented feature that had to be adjusted to resolve an issue. There is still a workaround though, as you've found. Wow ok. We def use this feature. We allow custom profile fields in member posts to be clicked and pull up a listing of members with the same field. Quite useful (feature suggestion?)! Example would be for country names, etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel_72 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Thanks, I reformatted the search URL to: https://my_community.com/forums/search/?&type=core_members&joinedDate=any&group[10]=1&group[3]=1&group[6]=1&tags=X and that works. 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauravk Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 WOW, glad to see that Im not the only one using the member search url and pasting the links in my community. Thanks @Marc Stridgen for pointing me to this topic to fix my broken url. Thanks @bfarber for workaround by adding &tags=X in the end of search string. Maybe IPB can come up with some more clean way to share URL's in future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fast Lane! Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 This is an invaluable tool. Should be official :-). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledge FTB Posted August 14, 2019 Author Share Posted August 14, 2019 Would it not be easier if they just fix it again? It worked as expected up to the last update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper74 Posted August 15, 2019 Share Posted August 15, 2019 @bfarber Please use the workaround for your own "sort by"-menu too... 🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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