XF 1.1 User Group Promotions

[Craig]

Good morning to you all.
I am having an issue with User Group Promotions.
I have them set up as i believe them to be correct, but my members are not being automatically promoted when they reach the requisite post count.

Any suggestion?

Thanks

 

[Chris D]

Good evening to you!

When someone matches the criteria for a user promotion, it could be up to an hour before they are actually promoted.

This is because the process is completed by a Cron Entry (Admin CP > Tools > Cron Entries) that run at scheduled times to reduce load on the server.

 

[Jake Bunce]

As Chris said, it runs hourly. You may wish to manually run the cron after creating the promotion:

Admin CP -> Tools -> Cron Entries -> User Group Promotions -> Controls: Run

And even if you manually run the cron it only processes users who have been active in the last 3 days. If you want to process all users regardless of activity then you need to use this updated version of the cron:

http://xenforo.com/community/thread...cron-running-out-of-memory.31541/#post-362657

That will allow you to remove 'last_activity' => array('>', XenForo_Application::$time - 86400 * 3) from the file to process all users without memory problems.

 

[Wildcat Media]

That will allow you to remove 'last_activity' => array('>', XenForo_Application::$time - 86400 * 3) from the file to process all users without memory problems.

That was perfect--I was scratching my head for awhile trying to figure out why I was running the user promotion cron job and only about an eighth of the users were being affected. Didn't know there was a 72 hour rule until I dug around the XF manual online. I made a copy of that file, downloaded the new one and made the edit and blew right through the users in no time.