XF 1.5 User Groups help

[Visual Temper]

Hi guys, so i need a little help, ive only just been able to purchase my XF license and finally started my new forums! How ever, i would like it so that when guests and newly registered members (0 posts) can only see one forum and have to create a discussion in that forum to unlock the rest of the board, is this possible or am i asking to much?

i do not want it as an add on i just simply want to create the user group so the can only see the "Introduce Yourself" Forum
i want it because it will help stop spam and is just a little added security i suppose

 

[Paul B]

Revoke the view permission for all forums other than that one and create a user group promotion for 1 post, with the promoted user group having view permissions for the other forums.

Note though that the post count is for all posts, which includes replies.
It's not possible to do a promotion based on thread count only.

 

[Visual Temper]

Thats ok, i would rather them let the community know they are there before they can go ahead and "use" the main feautures
can i not make it so they cant reply to a thread but only create a thread?

 

[Paul B]

can i not make it so they cant reply to a thread but only create a thread?

Yes, you can revoke that permission (Post replies) in that node only.

 

[Visual Temper]

Great, if I revoke access to categories will it save the issue of doing the other forums also?
when they sign up i want to make them introduce their self to the community before they can post unlock the rest of the forums

 

[Paul B]

Yes, it propagates down to the child nodes.

 

[Visual Temper]

now, ive created the user promotion, how can i change their permission?
ive set the upgrade to user has to post 1 message
but i cant find permissions anywhere, do i have to create another user group?

 

[Visual Temper]

Yes, it propagates down to the child nodes.

I cant find permissions on user upgrades :/

 

[Paul B]

You create a new user group linked to the promotion.

https://xenforo.com/help/user-group-promotions/

 

[Visual Temper]

ive done the following, so in user prmotion ive created "Member" and i also created a "Member" user group
in user group promotion i have the following
Promotion Active
add user to group Member
and to be promoted user must post at least 1 message (That must be a topic created?)

but the test account is not being auto promoted for some reason and when i try and manual promote nothing neither

 

[Visual Temper]

You create a new user group linked to the promotion.

https://xenforo.com/help/user-group-promotions/

ive been tweaking around a bit but still not working

 

[Paul B]

I've just added this to my criteria add-on, which you may be interested in:


I'll be releasing the update later.

 

[Paul B]

This will allow you to create a user group promotion based on the number of threads: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/cta-criteria.3006/update?update=17538

 

[Visual Temper]

Thank you, This is great!
Just what i was after!
Sorry it was a while and a pointless reply but my internet has been cut off due to the bad weather