Not a bug Permissions Bug?

[Dynamic]

Hello,

If I modify an account upgrade (allow user to join a new usergroup) whilst the upgrade is active, it completely ignores the new upgrade settings.

Also, I have a user promotion active that adds a user to a group once they have made more than 350 posts. For some reason, this is not doing it.

xF 1.2

Thanks

 

[CyberAP]

Same for me, tried promotions — didn't work either.

 

[Mike]

I'm a little bit confused about what you're reporting here and it sounds like two completely unrelated things.

The user upgrade changes aren't retroactive; they are applied when the upgrade is first purchased. This is generally as expected currently.

I don't understand the second one. Are you simply saying that promotions don't work? There are various caveats about how they're applied. They're applied on the first page view of a session or via cron (once the last activity is updated).

 

[Dynamic]

Hi Mike,

Okay, so the upgrades can not be changed during an active upgrade. I'll add this as a suggestion.

I have set up a User Group Promotion to add users to a secondary user group if they meet this criteria.

• I have the setting "If user has made more than x posts". I have made x = 350.
• I have the setting "If user is member of "y" selected user group.
• I have the setting "If custom user field criteria is set to "z"

Now, there are say 500 users who fit that criteria. So, I would expect 500 members to be part of the designated secondary usergroup. This however has not happened (6 hours since I set it up). I am sure I am doing something wrong, but so far it all looks correct to me.

Thanks.

 

[Jeremy]

Those 500 users need to login to have the promotion applied. It's done on session creation in 1.2 and through a cron in 1.0 and 1.1 (happens the hour after login).

 

[Mike]

The cron still exists in 1.2 as well.

 

[CyberAP]

I tried manually launching cron operation to complete all promotions and got my promotion applied to only 10-12 members instead of 100. This is not expected.

 

[Mike]

Promotions are only applied to recently active users. Users that don't receive it will receive it when they next login.

 

[CyberAP]

Okay, but I think it should be noted somewhere because right now it's really confusing.

 

[Paul B]

It has been mentioned many, many, many times over the last three years.

 

[chulapi]

It has been mentioned many, many, many times over the last three years.

Put it in the manual please.

 

[CyberAP]

Put it in the manual please.

Or better into XenForo please.

 

[Jeremy]

Put it in the manual please.

It is and has been in the manual since the start.

 

[Dynamic]

Not sure what is happening with everyone else, but users who fit the criteria have logged in since and yet no promotion was made. However, some users were promoted. I kept track of who logged in and they still did not get the promotion. Would the "Keep me logged in" affect this at all?

 

[Syndol]

Not sure what is happening with everyone else, but users who fit the criteria have logged in since and yet no promotion was made. However, some users were promoted. I kept track of who logged in and they still did not get the promotion. Would the "Keep me logged in" affect this at all?

I believe it happens when the cron runs (every hour I think) after they log out and their session is updated.