Pending memberships

[Former Member]

Hi,

When we apply to join a forum and our request is pending admin approval, is there a list of pending requests that we can view? I can't find a list showing the status of requests (pending/accepted/rejected). Of course, I know which ones are accepted but for the others, there seems to be no record of them in my profile. Other than writing them down, how can I track my forum membership requests?

[Craig]

Hi

You can check the Security Log in your administration area [ Security > Security Log ]. You can filter the log to show only new registrations, accepted or rejected logs via the All Logs drop down menu in the top right hand corner.

All Logs > Members

[Former Member]

Hi Craig

Maybe there's a little misunderstanding here. I'm talking about when I, as a normal user, apply, not on the requests received by the forum admin.

[mmhmm]

There's nothing I know of that will keep track of what forums you've applied to join for you. That's something you'd have to do for yourself.

[Craig]

Jul 9, 2017 21:46:00 GMT -8 @shades07 said:

Hi Craig

Maybe there's a little misunderstanding here. I'm talking about when I, as a normal user, apply, not on the requests received by the forum admin.

Yeah.  I debated a little with myself whether it was as a member or an admin.  Part of the post sounded like admin, the other member.  I swayed towards admin.

You should be sent an email when you register for a forum.  If you haven't, or don't delete those emails, you should have a record of the accounts there.  Otherwise, i am afraid, there is no record

[Willow]

Jul 9, 2017 22:10:34 GMT -8 Craig said:

Jul 9, 2017 21:46:00 GMT -8 @shades07 said:

Hi Craig

Maybe there's a little misunderstanding here. I'm talking about when I, as a normal user, apply, not on the requests received by the forum admin.

Yeah.  I debated a little with myself whether it was as a member or an admin.  Part of the post sounded like admin, the other member.  I swayed towards admin.

You should be sent an email when you register for a forum.  If you haven't, or don't delete those emails, you should have a record of the accounts there.  Otherwise, i am afraid, there is no record

Can't you see this on your "Forum Dashboard"?

[Craig]

Jul 10, 2017 0:43:09 GMT -8 Willow said:

Jul 9, 2017 22:10:34 GMT -8 Craig said:

Yeah.  I debated a little with myself whether it was as a member or an admin.  Part of the post sounded like admin, the other member.  I swayed towards admin.

You should be sent an email when you register for a forum.  If you haven't, or don't delete those emails, you should have a record of the accounts there.  Otherwise, i am afraid, there is no record

Can't you see this on your "Forum Dashboard"?

It will show you existing accounts, but not those that have been rejected, and thus deleted.

[Former Member]

Jul 9, 2017 22:10:34 GMT -8 Craig said:

Jul 9, 2017 21:46:00 GMT -8 @shades07 said:

Hi Craig

Maybe there's a little misunderstanding here. I'm talking about when I, as a normal user, apply, not on the requests received by the forum admin.

Yeah.  I debated a little with myself whether it was as a member or an admin.  Part of the post sounded like admin, the other member.  I swayed towards admin.

You should be sent an email when you register for a forum.  If you haven't, or don't delete those emails, you should have a record of the accounts there.  Otherwise, i am afraid, there is no record

I must admit I rarely use email. It's so old school, haha. I can't remember the last time I checked. I'll have a look and see what's there.

From what you've said, I understand that applicants never get a rejection email. Am I right? So we, applicants that is, never know if the join request has been actioned or not. We only know that it's not been accepted. It could be sitting untouched in the pending state forever for all we know.

That's kinda fine but it would be nice, as a forum user, to have a list of join requests that we could reference. When you get older, it's harder to remember what we did yesterday and this might save us sending duplicate join requests

[Craig]

Indeed, an email is not sent when an account is rejected, so it is a bit of research needed when you go through the signup emails and see if the account exists or not.

I can certainly list this as a feature request. It would perhaps be nice to have a global account action log to record such actions