XF 2.1 Using state 'awaiting approval' inside promotion rule doesn't stick.

[Monkeytime]

I want to assign all newly registered users to a secondary group. I thought promotion using 'awaiting approval' state would work. Log shows it worked and promotion value given. After approval, secondary user group is removed.

The wording is "Apply this promotion while...", so it seems syntactically correct that while 'not' in approval state anymore, the promotion wouldn't apply.

Is this indeed why the secondary group was removed? I don't see a "apply this promotion when" option.

What's the recommended way to apply a secondary user group to all new registrations? Thank you.

 

[Mr Lucky]

There really is no need to try to do it that way.

The simple and normal approach is to make sure registered group (which as you know is primary) need approval, ie Submit content without approval = no,

And you have a promotion requiring x number of posts adds a secondary group that has the permission Submit content without approval= yes

 

[Monkeytime]

There really is no need to try to do it that way

I understand that. I'm doing this for other reasons that detract so not elaborating (it's to do with one to many group messaging). There is no intention to disallow content submission. But thank you.

 

[Mr Lucky]

There is no intention to disallow content submission. But thank you.

same procedure applies. There is no need to aplly a secondary group until there is some criteria via a promotion or via an upgrade or via a warning or some other manual reason.

So you only need to start with one group. Or am I basically misunderstanding?

 

[Monkeytime]

There is no need to aplly a secondary group

There is a reason, I'm just not sharing it publicly. If you PM me I will share privately.

Getting back to the question, is there a way to add a secondary group to all newly registered users?

 

[Paul B]

Set up a promotion with the criterion that the member is in the Registered user group.

I can't really see the point though.

 

[Monkeytime]

Set up a promotion with the criterion that the member is in the Registered user group.

That will change past users though. I'll have to resort to not logic of other groups. Not as clean because future elevated user groups need retouching here. I have my way forward. Thanks. (again reasons are really a private concern; lawyers etc...)

 

[beerForo]

So by newly registered you mean after a certain date like today's date?

You could do it with this add-on and option #1 (see pic).

Unmaintained - [TH] User Criteria

This add-on adds the following additional criteria to the add/edit screen in the Admin Control Panel for user group promotions, notices, trophies, Privacy Groups by Waindigo and any other add-on/feature that allows selection of user criteria...

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[beerForo]

Sorry here is the version 2:

Unmaintained - [TH] User Criteria Extended

User Criteria Extended Get User Criteria Extended for free by using the coupon code MORECRITERIA during checkout. Heavily extends the range of available user criteria by adding opposite criteria for most existing criteria, along with a whole...

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[Monkeytime]

Thank you. Not only does provide a solution, what an awesome adjunct mod for user engagement via promotions.

 

[beerForo]

I'm going to look mote into it myself.