XF 1.5 Multiple Usergroups Permission Handling

[king8084]

I'm struggling with a User Upgrade scenario, where when the user has the upgrade applied, the applied secondary group's permissions aren't respected. This issue isn't specific to any single add-on, but in particular, I'm using @Siropu 's "Username Change" add-on where the secondary group applied is a change to a numeric value ("minimum days between changes") to be a lower value than what's applied to the primary "Registered" usergroup. i.e., the user will have a value on both the primary and secondary usergroup that they're a member of. From what I've read across the forum, the higher value is always chosen, based on core Xf functionality (and I need it to be the lower value).

So, how can I achieve this? The User Upgrade doesn't allow for an adjustment to the primary usergroup, and is restricted to simply adding the member to a secondary group. I can't think of a logical way to make this work.

 

[Lawrence]

Here is one way around it:

Why not set the primary user group (registered) minimum days to the lowest value, and then set higher values for secondary user groups?

For example: secondary user groups contain Silver members - 30 days, Gold members - 15 days, Platinum members - 5 days

Registered user group minimum days between changes : 5 days +Silver members 30 days = 30 days
Registered user group minimum days between changes : 5 days +Gold members 15 days = 15 days
Registered user group minimum days between changes : 5 days +Platinum members 5 days = 5 days

 

[king8084]

Here is one way around it:

Why not set the primary user group (registered) minimum days to the lowest value, and then set higher values for secondary user groups?

For example: secondary user groups contain Silver members - 30 days, Gold members - 15 days, Platinum members - 5 days

Registered user group minimum days between changes : 5 days +Silver members 30 days = 30 days
Registered user group minimum days between changes : 5 days +Gold members 15 days = 15 days
Registered user group minimum days between changes : 5 days +Platinum members 5 days = 5 days

Let me know if I'm understanding you incorrectly, but doing the above would require adding the "+Silver" secondary user group to all members (while lowering/removing the criteria from the Registered group), and then utilizing the user upgrade to apply the +Gold & +Platinum groups, correct?

In which case, wouldn't I be left with the same issue? i.e., the user group upgrade would apply +Gold, which would have 15 days, but the user would still also be a member of +Silver. The problem here would lay with the fact that (from what I can tell) the user upgrade functionality doesn't allow you to remove a user from a group, while simultaneously adding them to another.

Am I tracking your suggestion correctly?

 

[Lawrence]

You would use the user upgrade to remove a member from, for example, the silver group and add them to the gold group. This is just one way, but it will accomplish what you want,

 

[king8084]

You would use the user upgrade to remove a member from, for example, the silver group and add them to the gold group. This is just one way, but it will accomplish what you want,

I'm still not sure this would work. Doing so would require me to add ALL active + future members to the user upgrade that has the higher value. Are you aware of a way to do this en mass + automatically for new users moving forward? I don't think this approach would work without doing so.

 

[king8084]

bumping, in hopes for an alternate solution.