Thanks Erik. Yeah, that’s what I did, but you know that’s a whole process, would love it if I can get that job done more quickly without having to export out and import back in twice each time…

Here’s hoping someone at the NB team can think up a creative way to approximate a sampling with the existing search tools. I bet there is one, but I wasn’t able to find it.

You can get just a little bit random by searching
Name: " A%"

Because of the preceding space, that will sort of get you everyone with an “A” last name, but it will also get you people with an “A” middle name, or just anyone with a space followed by an “A” anywhere in their name. You can save it as a filter, so if you create 26 alphabet filters you might be able to use those to quickly add to two lists. But of course that’s going to be really sloppy…

I would love to just be able to get all even NationBuilder IDs and all odd NationBuilder IDs.

The NB team might have a better idea with some internal tool, but it’d be easy to do if you export your NB database as a CSV, sort it/sample it randomly with your favorite tool (excel makes it easy), and when you upload the resulting sample tag the entries with list_a