Bug adding users in multisite

[jane]

In 3.0 multisite (site in question is wordcamp.org), am having trouble adding new users to an individual site. When you click Add new User, you get:

You can add new users to your site in two ways:

1. Enter the username and email address of an existing user on this site.

2. Enter the username and the email address of a person who is not already a member of this site. Choose the username carefully, it cannot be changed.

That person will be sent an email asking them to click a link confirming the invite. New users will then be sent an email with a randomly generated password and a login link.

A) We should update that text to say network instead of site.

B) When I entered someone's username and email who was already in the network user system, instead of adding them to site, I get two error messages:
Sorry, that username already exists''

Sorry, that email address is already used''

Catch-22.

[duck_]

The network/site confusion was fixed in [15310].

Also, part B) works for me. Is it a specific user name/email combo or are all failing?

(Maybe the check in user-new.php lines 58/59 should use username_exists and email_exists like wpmu_validate_user_signup instead of the direct query)

[simonwheatley]

Part B also works for me, although I recommend we call the second button "Create User" for clarity. Attaching a minor patch create user.diff to do this.

Suggestion One: I wonder if the current screen couldn't be refactored though. Why do we need two areas? The more fields the more of a headache we're potentially causing users... could we have just one form and intelligently work out if we need to add or create and add the user.

Suggestion Two: If we want to keep the two form structure, then when someone mistakenly enters values in the "Create" section rather than the "Add" section should we (a) guess they want to add a user and just do it (assuming we have a user who matches both username and email), or should we add an error message with a button explaining that we think they meant to add a user, not create one, with these details and offering an "Add this user" button?

[simonwheatley]

Amend one button's text from "Add User" to "Create User"

[ocean90]

jane, any problems here still?

[PeteMall]

s/Creationism/Evolution/

[PeteMall]

s/Creationism/Evolution/

[PeteMall]

(In [16930]) s/Creationism/Evolution/ in site-users. See #14756

[westi]

We should use get_blog_option not raw SQL here in both cases.

Can probably move the setting of $default_role up to the top with $editblog_roles

[PeteMall]

(In [16935]) Use get_blog_option() isntead of raw SQL in site-users. See #14756

[PeteMall]

Leaving this open if someone wants to tweak the forms... See ​http://make.wordpress.org/ui/2010/12/14/203/.

[ryan]

In the bug scrub, we discussed changing just the button text for 3.1 and pushing the more thorough rework to 3.2.

[ryan]

(In [17049]) Clarify button text. fixes #14756

[ryan]

Modest string changes for 3.1. Further UI revamp pushed to 3.2. Accounting for being able to create and/or add users and the single site and multisite variations make this too big for 3.1.

[westi]

Should we not do this text clarification on the wp-admin/users.php page too as that always says Add New which is confusing when a user can only Add Existing.

[nacin]

That's really trivial. "Add Existing" without "User" would look odd there I think. When they go to the page, it is clear that they're adding existing vs new. Close and revisit in 3.2?

[westi]

Better Button Titles

[westi]

Take 2, with proper user of context and consistency

[westi]

That re-uses the strings in both places and makes the it clearer for users who can only promote that they are not entering some secret place they shouldn't go.

[westi]

Seems I misinterpreted nacins feedback and got my consistency all wrong :-(

[westi]

Third time lucky?

[westi]

(In [17069]) Improve the button and header test to give a clearer picture between Adding New Users and Adding Exiting Users to a site. Fixes #14756