User Upgrades

[chillybean]

I know you can create a paid user upgrade and provide your paypal account email, but I'm a bit puzzled by how this works, on the user's end? What sort of interface does this require, for the user to upgrade? Does something automatically appear on the site that they can click, or is there something you have to produce?

 

[Paul B]

There is a link on their menu/profile they can click.

 

[chillybean]

Thanks!

 

[Paul B]

Which will take them to this page.

 

[chillybean]

Can upgraded groups turn off ads? How would this be done?

 

[Paul B]

Using user group conditionals.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/frequently-asked-questions.5183/#post-182355

 

[chillybean]

Thanks. I was unaware that you had to create a user group for upgrades; I thought this was automatically done when the upgrade was created. I guess you need to do both?

You'll have to forgive me; I'm not a technical person, so I'm not sure I understand the info in your link. Can you be a bit more specific? I create the upgraded group, and then what? Create a user group, too? If I wanted to block ads for this group, where would the code go, and what would it be?

 

[Paul B]

User upgrades and user groups are separate although they do work in conjunction with each other.
You can add one or more user groups to a user upgrade.

User groups are covered here: http://xenforo.com/help/user-groups/

User upgrades are here: http://xenforo.com/help/user-upgrades/

The normal sequence is to create a new user group, if required.
Create the upgrade and link it to the new (or existing) user group.

To block adverts to a specific group, add a user group conditional to the relevant ad_ template.
For example:
<xen:if is="!{xen:helper ismemberof, $visitor, 5} AND !{xen:helper ismemberof, $visitor, 6}">
This advert will be hidden from members of user groups 5 and 6
</xen:if>

 

[chillybean]

Thank you. Perfect!

 

[chillybean]

Another really, really dumb question (I'm trying this out in the demo, that's why I need to know). I can't seem to find the user group ID numbers. Where would I find them?

 

[Paul B]

Hover over the user group in the group listing and the URL will appear bottom left of the browser.
Or click on a group and the URL will load in the address bar.

The ID is after the user group name.

For example: admin.php?user-groups/administrative.3/edit