Expert Mode (CQL) for new People Search and List macro
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Angela Gaida
The deprecated macro Custom User List has an expert mode where you can select users to list by using CQL statements.
The new macro People Search & List doesn't offer this option. Therefore, some macros cannot be switched to the new version, they rely on using the CQL mode or expert mode.
The idea now is to offer an expert mode for CQL queries in the new macro.
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Daniel Schimanek
Hi Angela Gaida,
first of all, thanks for the quick implementation of the CQL functionality! It works perfect for nearly all use cases.
Unfortunately when I was trying CQL to display users assigned to a user group / mailing list and hiding some users, it cuts the list at 50 entries and does not display a pagination below the list.
It would be great to be able to set the users per page manually, maybe with a default at 50 entries.
Our use case is that we want to merge multiple "People Search and List" tables into one contact person matrix, structured by org unit vertically and user groups horizontally, with the users separated by comma.
The matrix creation looks wild but works fine 😉
Now we are missing some colleagues as some groups have more than 50 entries...
Could you please check if this issue is already known and if the feature can be implemented?
Thanks, Daniel
Angela Gaida
Daniel Schimanek: thanks for sharing this use case, that's super interesting to see! And you're right, it does look wild :D
As for the cut off at 50 people - I consider this to be a bug, not a feature request. It should have a pagination just the same as it does when using the standard mode. I would kindly ask you to open a support ticket at https://seibert.biz/help, so the colleagues there can analyze the problem and create a bug ticket for our dev team.
Angela Gaida
Daniel Schimanek: As for the idea to make the pagination configurable, I opened a fresh canny ticket under https://linchpin.canny.io/linchpin-user-profiles/p/add-configurable-pagination-to-people-search-list-macro, so we can gauge the interest in this feature. Please feel free to vote for it :)
Angela Gaida
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Angela Gaida
Good news everyone,
we will be shipping this addition to the People Search & List macro in our November release. Keep an eye out, we are expecting to release at the end of the month. :)
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Oliver Esser
Hi Angela,
our main use cases are "OR instead of AND" and "direct input of a user list". So this requirement fits to our needs.
Angela Gaida
I'm putting the use cases here that Daniel Schimanek listed in the other issue (https://linchpin.canny.io/linchpin-user-profiles/p/new-and-improved-macro-for-user-lists-and-user-search), so we don't lose that information.
- Have a possibility to combine different fields with an "OR" connection - we used "Expert mode (CQL)" for that
- State multiple users to create a manual list if there was no common field between these people, to have the same look and feel as at the "search-based" list - we used "Expert mode (CQL)" for that
- Exclude people/results using "NOT" / "!=" function
Everyone else who voted on this: I'd be very interested to hear from you what your use cases for CQL mode are. So far we have
- OR instead of AND
- direct input of (several) user names
- exclude (!=)
Are your use cases one of those three? Or do you have others? I'm really curious about how you use this feature in the old macro.
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Daniel Schimanek
Angela Gaida: In addition, we use the Custom User List macro in combination with the Pivot table macro to dynamically display the count of people, e.g. to show the number of people in a team.
The result with the chosen settings is just a plain number, that can be used within a text.
Angela Gaida
Daniel Schimanek: wow, that's super interesting - thanks a lot for this insight!
Does this work with the new People Search & List macro as well?