To tailor your search for one or more users:

1. Click Search on the WebBoard menubar. The Message Search page opens.

2. Click Search Users at the top of the page. The Search Users form opens. You can also click Search Users on the More Options menu to open the Search Users form.

3. Click the appropriate radio button to indicate whether to search by first or last name or email address, a city or town, state or province, country, or the URL for a home page.

4. Enter the letters to search for. For example, you haven’t noticed any postings recently by Sarah Chien, but don’t know if the correct spelling is Chen or Chien. Select the Last Name option and enter Ch in the Search textbox. Alternatively, you could select First Name and enter Sarah.

5. Click Search. A list displays all the users who match the search string.

Note When you search by Home Page, the URL appears in the Location column of the search results instead of the City/State/Country information.

Listing All Users

You can view a list of all users on the board and choose how to sort it. Sorting choices are the same as searching choices—user’s first or last name or email address, a city or town, state or province, country, or the URL for a home page.

To list all users:

1. Click More on the WebBoard menubar. The More Options menu opens.

2. Click Search Users. The Search Users form opens.

3. Click a radio button to indicate how to sort the list. Don’t put any letters in the search textbox. For example, select City/Town to have users grouped by the city/town entry on their user profiles.

4. Click Search. WebBoard lists all the users on the board, sorted by user’s first or last name or email address, a city or town, state or province, country, or the URL for a home page. Each group is arranged alphabetically.

Searching by the First Letter of the Last Name

A hyperlink alphabet provides a shortcut for searching for users by last name. To use the shortcut search, follow these steps:

1. Click More on the WebBoard menubar. The More Options menu opens.

2. Click Search Users. The Search Users form opens.

3. Click the appropriate letter from the alphabet below the search textbox. WebBoard displays a list of all users whose last names begin with that letter.

Finding Current Users and Today's Users

The Current Users link on the More Options menu displays a window showing who is using WebBoard right now. The list is updated every 60 seconds. At the top of the list is a QuickStats update showing the total number of users today (and how many are new users) and the total number of current users. Each name in the list is a link to that person’s user profile. The Current Users list also includes a link to the Today’s Users list.

The Today’s Users link from the More Options menu displays a list of all users who have logged into the current board today. The list is quite similar to the Current Users list. The list gives you an update on who has been to the board today and also includes a QuickStats report of total users and current users. Each user’s name is a link to his or her profile. The page also has a link to the Current Users list.

Finding the Top 10 Users and Posters

WebBoard keeps track of its users and can tell you who the 10 most active users are based on the number of times they log in to WebBoard. The Top 10 Users link from the More Options menu displays a list of the most active users with the number of times they have logged in since the board was started. Each user’s name is a link to his or her user profile information.

WebBoard also keeps track of who the most active participants are on the board by number of postings. The Top 10 Posters link from the More Options menu displays a list of the most active message posters with the number of messages they have each posted. Each user’s name is a link to his or her user profile information. The resulting list is similar to the Top 10 Users list.

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