Automatic group assigner

[Triangulum/Elicia]

ok, so basically my forum is for a minecraft server, and we're giving people a free alpha tester role until it's out of alpha testing. I want to do the same thing on the forums, but I don't know how to make it automatically give them the group. I could very well just be stupid, and it could easily be something that's already doable, so if I can do that without the need for a plugin, just tell me how.

and to be 100% clear, I need the automatic assignment of the group to be temporary, but the group to stay on those that got it. after alpha we're going to have beta, which will have a similar group but instead of alpha tester it'll be beta tester, then after that it'll be gone. if anyone wants to help that would be great and I'll even credit you.

[Chris]

Plugins would not be able to perform actions that only an administrator should be able to perform, I'm sure you could see the danger in allowing such a feature. 

There is however a built-in feature that should hopefully address your request

Feb 22, 2019 14:05:06 GMT -8 Matej said:

Assign Member Group on Registration

We're happy to announce the addition of a new feature that will be available to you soon: Assign Member Group on Registration. You can find a new segment of the Forum Settings > Login & Registration page of your forum Admin Panel called “Assign Member Group on Registration”. This feature allows you to automatically assign new members to a group upon registration. To achieve this, enable the feature in your admin panel and assign a group that complies with the restrictions imposed. Any new user account registration after this point will automatically become a member of the group.

What are the restrictions on which group can be used?

The group has two very simple restrictions:

• The group cannot be marked “staff”

• The group cannot be marked “global”

We have taken this approach to try to eliminate the amount of destructive functionality available to just any newly registered user - there should be no circumstance that a newly registered user should automatically become an administrator with full power. Such an action will continue to require manual intervention.

[Triangulum/Elicia]

May 1, 2020 6:48:03 GMT -8 Chris said:

Plugins would not be able to perform actions that only an administrator should be able to perform, I'm sure you could see the danger in allowing such a feature. 

There is however a built-in feature that should hopefully address your request

Feb 22, 2019 14:05:06 GMT -8 Matej said:

Assign Member Group on Registration

We're happy to announce the addition of a new feature that will be available to you soon: Assign Member Group on Registration. You can find a new segment of the Forum Settings > Login & Registration page of your forum Admin Panel called “Assign Member Group on Registration”. This feature allows you to automatically assign new members to a group upon registration. To achieve this, enable the feature in your admin panel and assign a group that complies with the restrictions imposed. Any new user account registration after this point will automatically become a member of the group.

What are the restrictions on which group can be used?

The group has two very simple restrictions:

• The group cannot be marked “staff”

• The group cannot be marked “global”

We have taken this approach to try to eliminate the amount of destructive functionality available to just any newly registered user - there should be no circumstance that a newly registered user should automatically become an administrator with full power. Such an action will continue to require manual intervention.

Thank you, I've set that up. I thought there was gonna be a vanilla method to doing this but I just couldn't find it.