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noelweston
Starting Member
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 02 April 2007 : 11:14:40
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Hi - hope someone can help me with this one. I'm a reasonably experienced ASP, SQL and access developer but new to Snitz. I have a client who needs to get a forum up and running quickly, but with particular requirements regarding membership. I've searched and browsed the forums, but not come up with any good answers as yet.
What we would like to do is :
- Any visitor to be able to browse the forum content
- Only registered users able to post
- However, only paid up members of the organisation will be given forum logins - i.e. there is to be NO automatic registration procedure. The administrators will create user accounts and passwords for members and supply them with other membership info. In odd cases, external people may email asking for access ; again, this would be created manually and details supplied back.
So far, I have a test version of Snitz 3.4.06 up and running, and have "prohibit new members" on, "require registration" off. What I can't see is any way now to add users to the system. I have installed the usergroups mod in the hope that that would help, but again it needs the users set up before they can be selected.
Is there any simple / existing way to do what I want, or am I going to have to write a routing to populate users into the database myself ? If so, which pieces of code do I need to use as my starting point ?
Thanks for any help you can give !
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
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Posted - 02 April 2007 : 12:07:16
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Easiest way to achieve this would be to prohibit new members from registering then edit register.asp to allow administrators to register new members.
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 02 April 2007 : 14:56:19
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Or you could set registration up so that you have to approve all registrants - that way your members (once they're allowed to post) can still choose their own usernames and passwords (and give their own details etc). You could even 'hide' the registration page from everyday users, if you wanted to, and just send links to the register.asp page out to the people you really want (whilst still approving pending memberships to maintain control).
For my 2p, I strongly believe in allowing members to pick their own usernames and passwords as it saves huge problems with having to maintain a list of people and their passwords and being the one they come to when they forget '8eY&K31Z|00' as a password ;-) I believe it so strongly I delayed the launch of a commercial site (I was brought in to manage back in 2000) by 3 months (to some protests!) to make the user's workflow simpler (and so keep them returning as opposed to trying to hunt down some arcane username and password...then going elsewhere when they got fed up of looking!). One of the mods gives you the 'approve memberships' facility, and I reccommend it in this case. |
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noelweston
Starting Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 April 2007 : 15:17:32
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Thanks for the swift responses.
I will have a good look at register.asp in the morning when my head stops pounding... today has been a rapid learning curve ! Having had a play with some of the mods and editing the various pages, I can now start from scratch with a better idea.
My client is definite that they don't want to offer registration - it is a benefit of membership to have access to the forum. We've been round the various loops on closed / open / private forums, and ended up back here. We already have an internal database with a list of paid members, so we can generate usernames and initial passwords from that. I appreciate what you are saying, but I have to work within the requirements for now, at least until the system beds in. (I also have experience of similar things from a large corporate intranet, where the default response to a forgotten password was to change it to "muppet" and then get the user to change it again on login...)
Thanks again for the help - I'll see how I get on tomorrow. |
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jfisher911
Starting Member
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Posted - 03 April 2007 : 00:11:49
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Originally posted by pdrg
Or you could set registration up so that you have to approve all registrants
How do I set this up in the new version. I had it working in an older version, but I can't get it working in the newest one.
My brain is tired.
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Shaggy
Support Moderator
Ireland
6780 Posts |
Posted - 03 April 2007 : 04:07:53
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Restrict registration in your e-mail configuration.
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noelweston
Starting Member
United Kingdom
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Posted - 03 April 2007 : 05:45:05
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Just to update - got this working with an amended version of register.asp linked from the admin home page.
Had to do a bit of tweaking to get round the restriction on new members and the auto-login bits, but it's working perfectly. Thanks to all for their help and suggestions.
Now all I have left to do is figure out a bulk user upload version from the current user list, and then probably migrate from access to SQL at some point... |
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AnonJr
Moderator
United States
5768 Posts |
Posted - 03 April 2007 : 08:47:05
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Not sure about the bulk upload (maybe with more information someone could help), but when you get ready to upgrade there are two topics (here and here) that deal with the upgrade process. Have fun, and good luck.  |
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