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I have two forums, under the same install that share members and you need to be approved by administrator to be a member and to post topics in it…

Is there a way to create another forum, where anybody can register automatically?
Or is this only possible under a second install of EE ?

You can do this from the same install.

Create 2 member groups, one group for each forum you have:

Member group 1 can register automatically but can only post in Forum A
Member group 2 are the “approved” ones and can only post in Forum B

bluedreamer, that’s good… now, they share database, statistics and everything - but everything could be filtered by the “group”...
Thanks

Hi deschamps,

I’m sorry, I’m not sure what the issue is. What do you need to do?

Cheers

Greg

@Rob, thanks for helping out.

my site has already ForumA and ForumB...
- when someone registers,
- admin has to approve member and once approved,
- member logins once for both forums
- member can post in both (A, B) forums…

that is functioning already…

Now, I need to create a ForumC,
- there is a simple registration: name, password
- no approval required,
- registration is only valid for ForumC
- member can post only in ForumC

do I need two separate registration pages?
how do people select to which forums they want to register to?

I have been trying in member preferences and forum permissions, but do not find a solution…

site has already several default “groups”: guest, pending members, members, moderators and admins - with permissions for all actual forums (A and B)...

how do I implement a difference for members of “new-ForumC” with members of “ForumA+ForumB” ?...

CP has a great tool to personalize preferences for groups (Members>Member Groups>Edit Group)... with a little patience I think I could handle that part… and a little extra work with forum permissions…

but before doing that, I need to solved if these two “Member Groups” need some kind of filter to be differentiated since registry… because we’ll have different registration approvals for each group…

- I created Group “eBird”
- with no approval requirement, member automatically assigned to “eBird”
- and only ForumC posting

then, visiting ForumC,
I tried to register a member to “eBird” group (no approval)...

the registration went through approval as for any forum… what am I missing?...

You have a default member group set up. In most cases, it is the Members group. When you set up your forum to allow registration, it’s defaulting to the Member group.

The easiest thing would be to not allow the Members group access to the forums. Or you could change the default group assigned for new members.

Does that help?

oooh… thanks Sue…

so, if I change the members from “member” (forumA, forumB) to another “membersNew” group… deny access to forums or delete the default “member” group… then, ... ...then, what happens?...

when I try to register as a new member, the forum where I am at will determine to which group I will be assigned… right?...

Sue,
- I created a new group, with a name other than “members” for the old forums
- assigned permissions
- and created a new member, from de “newForum” page…

nop, it does not work as expected… new member was treated as defined in:

Member > Preferences > General Configuration > Default Member Group Assigned to New Members: you have to choose a default group…

so, every new member is automatically handled by this preference… you can not have a dynamic registry… at least, not with this solution of not using the default “members” group

any other ideas?...

There is no built in method to swap out membership levels, but there are two different third party offerings that might help.

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/registration-codes/ looks interesting.

Solspace has a Users module as well.

thanks Sue… I will take a look to both…

although I wasn’t thinking to put add-ons in my EE so soon - ... I am learning with this installation, I am still missing: modifying templates, creating pages from nothing, adding channels, build structure for others to generate content… then put some add-ons and learn from them…

wow, I am sure add-ons will complicate support for my learning… but here I go, “out of the original-parts-only realm”...

and “BlueDreamer” never came back…

deschamps,

For any add-ons I would recommend familiarising yourself with their documentation first to make sure it can actually do what you assume it does.

Thanks John, I’ll be careful to read…