Restricting registrations
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Topic: Restricting registrations
Posted By: Allan_Young
Subject: Restricting registrations
Date Posted: 20 May 2003 at 10:24am
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I've had a good search through, and can't seem to find any other posts on this, so here goes ..... I know its possible to restrict all new registrations, but is it possible to receive notification when someone registers and then decide, for whatever reason, whether to allow that person "in" or not? We have a support forum for students and I want to allow browsers to visit the forum but not actually register unless we know they are students. Thanks in advance. ------------- Everyone has a photographic memory, its just that some are out of film |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 May 2003 at 10:44am
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Sorry this board does not have that option available at the present time. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Vinay
Date Posted: 21 May 2003 at 7:30am
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Allan, Can you provide more detail? I may be able to help |
Posted By: Allan_Young
Date Posted: 21 May 2003 at 7:37am
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Basically I would like to choose who actually gets accepted as members of the forum - specifically students. I had a script once which ran a forum, and instead of automatically registering new members the administrator selected which group, if any, the new member should be assigned to; unsuccessful applicants received an email saying "Sorry, unsuccessful" etc. Hope this helps. If not email me direct. Thanks ------------- Everyone has a photographic memory, its just that some are out of film |
Posted By: Slushie
Date Posted: 22 May 2003 at 12:28am
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If you come up with a solution, I would be interested in implementing this too as I run a board for students as well. Occasionally, we get the odd student who wants to post rude or immature comments and it becomes a real hassle filtering those messages. Being able to assign members and activating them would be a real nice feature without having them automatically activated upon registering. |
Posted By: Allan_Young
Date Posted: 22 May 2003 at 2:22am
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I've seen work on a new MOD for allowing new members to choose which group they are assigned to, I think this will alleviate the problems, only certain groups have access to certain forums etc. ------------- Everyone has a photographic memory, its just that some are out of film |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 22 May 2003 at 2:41am
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You don't need a MOD to do that you can already do that with the forum. Just create the starting group in the admin section as a non ladder group and then set permissions for that group to only have access to those forums you allow the genral public to post in, or give that group no access on any forum. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Allan_Young
Date Posted: 22 May 2003 at 2:49am
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Many thanks - I'll set that in place right now! ------------- Everyone has a photographic memory, its just that some are out of film |
Posted By: pedalcars
Date Posted: 22 May 2003 at 5:36am
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Allan / Slushie,
It should be possible to ammend the registration confirmation email function such that the emails are always sent to the forum admin, rather than the applicant. That way, you'd learn of every membership application and could click on the email's link to activate it, or go into the admin section and delete the new (inactive) account, then email the applicant to tell them "sorry". If you ammended the terms and conditions page to include a note that non-student applications would be declined, that should put off most bogus applicants to minimise your workload; You could also alter the post-application page to say something like "Thanks for your application, it's being considered". I suppose it depends how many genuine students you have - if it's hundreds, you'd have an impossible amount of work to do, but if it's only a couple of dozen each year you should be OK. I must admit, I haven't done any digging for this specific reason, but I believe it would be possible; however -boRg-'s suggestion seems a lot simpler! (and each year you could batch-delete members who hadn't posted in the last 12 months, ie, registrants who weren't students and were thus left in the "no posting allowed" starting group) Just a couple of penneth...  ------------- http://www.pedalcars.info/ - www.pedalcars.info The most fun on four wheels 
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Posted By: Allan_Young
Date Posted: 22 May 2003 at 5:42am
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Very many thanks, although I know a little bit about ASP I think -boRg-'s recommendation is far simpler! Wehave around 200 students each year and the Support Forum is really only a side-line for me as an Instructor! That'll teach me to say "what about ...." Many thanks Allan ------------- Everyone has a photographic memory, its just that some are out of film |
Posted By: pedalcars
Date Posted: 22 May 2003 at 7:54am
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