Curious how people use users groups
Quote from Asgaros on December 6, 2017, 8:41 pmHello natchoice,
I can give you an example. I am organizing an university exchange-project which is taking part every two years. There are two categories with forums where students and professors can discuss internally in their own language:
- Frankfurt University
- Xinxiang University
In every project a new group of students will take part in the project. So every year has their own category with subforums where they can discuss private stuff, upload and share their photos/videos from their exchange trips, and so on.
- Member Area: 2015
- Member Area: 2017
For this we are using a categorized user-group structure like this:
- Universities
- Frankfurt
- Xinxiang
- Years
- 2015
- 2017
This usergroup-organization is used in the category-settings of the structure administration so only members of a specific usergroup has access to a defined area. So for example the german students which participated in the project in 2015 have access to the categories “Frankfurt University” and “Member Area: 2015”. Without usergroups this would not be possible. 🙂
Hello natchoice,
I can give you an example. I am organizing an university exchange-project which is taking part every two years. There are two categories with forums where students and professors can discuss internally in their own language:
- Frankfurt University
- Xinxiang University
In every project a new group of students will take part in the project. So every year has their own category with subforums where they can discuss private stuff, upload and share their photos/videos from their exchange trips, and so on.
- Member Area: 2015
- Member Area: 2017
For this we are using a categorized user-group structure like this:
- Universities
- Frankfurt
- Xinxiang
- Years
- 2015
- 2017
This usergroup-organization is used in the category-settings of the structure administration so only members of a specific usergroup has access to a defined area. So for example the german students which participated in the project in 2015 have access to the categories “Frankfurt University” and “Member Area: 2015”. Without usergroups this would not be possible. 🙂
Quote from andy1966 on February 7, 2018, 12:17 pmAsgaros
Do users have to be manually moved to the correct Usergroup, or is there a way to create a unique register URL for each usergroup? I am guessing that since registration is to the Wordpress platform, everyone ends up with the same role and needs to be manually moved to the correct forum usergroup.
Asgaros
Do users have to be manually moved to the correct Usergroup, or is there a way to create a unique register URL for each usergroup? I am guessing that since registration is to the Wordpress platform, everyone ends up with the same role and needs to be manually moved to the correct forum usergroup.
Quote from Asgaros on February 7, 2018, 10:00 pmHello andy1966,
at the moment this is not possible by default because an administrator can define access-settings for certain user groups. In this case it would just not make sense that a user sets/changes his group to get access to it. If you have coding-experience you can try to use one of the available WordPress-hooks which are called after an user-registration. Inside this hook you can call the following function:
AsgarosForumUserGroups::insertUserGroupsOfUsers($userID, $IDOfUserGroup);Maybe I can also add additional settings for user groups in a future update, but it will not be in the “very near” future.
Hello andy1966,
at the moment this is not possible by default because an administrator can define access-settings for certain user groups. In this case it would just not make sense that a user sets/changes his group to get access to it. If you have coding-experience you can try to use one of the available WordPress-hooks which are called after an user-registration. Inside this hook you can call the following function:
AsgarosForumUserGroups::insertUserGroupsOfUsers($userID, $IDOfUserGroup);
Maybe I can also add additional settings for user groups in a future update, but it will not be in the “very near” future.