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Hi I have a new project that I’d love to build in EE but I’m wondering if I can accomplish something easily with EE.
Basically I have one member group, let’s call them Managers, that each have their own landing page outlining their marketing material. I want people to be able to register for the site on each landing page, but then be automatically put under the manager’s group so that I can list out all the members a manager owns for analytics purposes.
Obviously I can just make a new member group and then pass the group ID into the login form, but I’m wondering if there’s a more efficient way to do this where the Managers would have their users associated automatically.

Thanks very much.

EE doesn’t natively think of users in hierarchy like that.  Users are assigned to groups which have permissions.

Is there a way to automate the creation of the member groups? E.g. a Manager registers and a new group is instantly created that matches their username or whatever?

Not natively—there is quite a bit of setup & configuration that each member group needs when setup.

Okay, thanks very much for your help.

While we’re here, I have a general discussion thread open at the moment too, but is it possible to count EE user logins? The client here wants to open rewards to users who login X numbers of times and there isn’t that db col for members in EE by default, do you know if that possible with any add ons or anything?

Again thank you!

The EE CP has a Control Panel Log that lists member logins, times & IP addresses.  Seems a relatively simple query could provide a count for each unique member_id.

That’s great to know, thanks very much for your great replies.
The client here wants to be able to provide for the case that a user just logs in and out 100 times so I’m guessing I’ll need to write logic for when it counts as a “real” loyalty program login or not. Thanks very much.

Oo also, the CP log looks like just super admins but I need logs for all members, is that possible?

Ah - good point.

That, I think, would require an add-on (or a core file hack, which I wouldn’t recommend).  I can’t say that I’ve seen anything like that but giving a Devot-ee a search might be worth doing.  Maybe the source of some of the various member-related add-ons could be persuaded to add it as a feature.