Using Advanced View for Smart Groups

The advanced view allows you to create more complicated rules, with or logical operator and nested operations.

The advanced view uses text editor to create code-like queries.

A single rule looks like this:

user.firstname.in(“John”) where:

• user is an object you refer to

• firstname is it’s property (a placeholder for user profile fields)

• in is operator you want to apply to the property

• (“John”) is a list of values you want to check object property against

So, the general syntax rule is object.property.operator(values)

When you want to combine rules, add && (and) or || (or) between rules. Examples:

• user.firstname.in(“John”) && user.lastname.in(“Doe”) applies to all users who are named John Doe

• user.firstname.in(“John”) || user.lastname.in(“Doe”) applies to all John’s and all Doe’s

In advanced view you can also nest rules, to build more advanced rules. Examples:

• ( user.firstname.in(“John”) || user.lastname.in(“Doe”) ) && user.department.in(“Sales”) applies to all John’s and all Doe’s who are members of Sales department

Please note: If your advanced rules use syntax not supported by the Basic View, you won’t be able to go back to the Basic View.