XF 2.2 Put user in usergroup for certain period of time

[Black Tiger]

This seems not possible with promotions.
But sometimes I would like to put certain users in a secondary usergroup for a certain amount of time (days or months for example) and that he gets automatically removed from that usergroup after that period of time.

Can this be done? If yes, how?

 

[AndyB]

I would like to put certain users in a secondary usergroup for a certain amount of time

For what purpose?

 

[Paul B]

You can use a warning for that.

 

[Black Tiger]

For what purpose?

For things like help they gave with certain things and for donations for example, so a couple of various things. Kind of reward.

@Brogan if I would want to use it for bad behaviour yes, but it's more like I want to reward some people.

 

[Paul B]

Then it would require custom development.

 

[Black Tiger]

Oh pity, I thought there might be an addon which could do this.

 

[beerForo]

Manually put into a group using User Upgrades. Create an upgrade that expires when you want. You'll have to put a cost but you can uncheck "Can be purchased" so it will not be purchasable.

 

[Black Tiger]

Thank you @beerForo I will look into that.

 

[beerForo]

Thank you @beerForo I will look into that.

I can't seem to find how to do this now. For example, if you have a premium group and a one year upgrade created, and run a contest and want to award them the premium membership for the year, you would manually add them. But I can't find how to manually add. Does this not exist or am I not seeing?

 

[Black Tiger]

I had no time to look at it yet. I don't mind searching for the user and manually adding them to the secondary usergroup like Donators.
But it would be nice if they would get automatically out of this secondary usergroup after x time.

 

[beerForo]

Yes that's what a user upgrade does but I swore you could add someone manually. I do it in another forum software, but I thought XF had this.

 

[Paul B]

it would be nice if they would get automatically out of this secondary usergroup after x time.

That's possible.

 

[beerForo]

Thanks! I overlooked that, and knew I had seen it.

This can work for you @Black Tiger. Create your group called Donators. Create an upgrade to it for 1 year (or whatever). Enter the cost, but remove it from being purchased so no one will see the cost, and manually upgrade.

 

[Black Tiger]

Great. That will work, thank you very mucht @beerForo and also @Brogan for the nice screenshots!