Easysocial user export
By Jordan Weinstein on Thursday, 07 January 2016
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Hello,

The Easysocial user export will often fail for large sites (many thousands of users). Usually, it's due to extremely long execution time requirements or memory requirement to finish the process. Would you consider another method for exporting rather than trying to complete it in a single page load? I actually use this to perform stats on the community, To do it, I am forced to download the whole site, and perform on my localhost where I can control the resource requirements.

Jordan
Also, if I can add, the export doesn't save to a file, just to a massive html page which I have to copy and paste the data from - often crashing the browser.
Jordan Weinstein
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Thursday, 07 January 2016 18:31
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Hey Jordan,

Hm, I am actually finding a way to actually allow downloading multi parts rather than a single output which contains thousands of users. I believe Docman has already achieved something similar with "streaming" but I will see what we can do about this.

Also, I was thinking of allowing to export by specific filters so that the result set wouldn't be that huge. Oh, do you think it's good for investor relations if there is a demographics page about your user and their behavior?
Mark
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Thursday, 07 January 2016 18:41
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Hi Mark,

That would be great if you could explore that. And filtering would be a great idea as would any other analytics we could get from the users. In many cases, the analytics from my sites is the most valuable aspect of them.

Jordan
Jordan Weinstein
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Thursday, 07 January 2016 19:06
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What sorts of filter do you guys mostly use to generate export data?

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Mark
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Thursday, 07 January 2016 19:12
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Domain added.

We like to run reports based on Country, Province, City, etc. We also have a profession dropdown that we often use to filter.

Jordan
Jordan Weinstein
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Thursday, 07 January 2016 19:20
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Hm, come to think of it, we already have such mechanism in place with the "Advanced Search". We could just ride on this algorithm to perform the export.
Mark
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Thursday, 07 January 2016 23:16
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Sure. No sense reinventing the wheel!
Jordan Weinstein
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Thursday, 07 January 2016 23:26
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Thanks We'll see what we can do about this in the future.
Mark
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Friday, 08 January 2016 00:57
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