I have one important question that I think all community developers are wondering about.Do we have to manually move existing and new users to their user groups?If this is true we all have a huge administration problem!I am not only worried about Manually adding every new user because it is time consuming, but because putting users "on hold" might be enough to make them loose the interest.Content creation is a huge and sensitive field in every community - especially those who are selling ads or need SERP exposure. Content creation is essential for my growth and putting users on hold is a big mistake.I have several thousand registered users that I can move into the right user group, but manually finding and adding new users on a daily basis is to heavy for my time schedule.. Please tell me that there is possible to do all this automatically!! :-)I use Jomsocial and every new registration goes through jomsocial.

So from what I gather,
In k2 parameters you are supposed to be able to set the default k2 group...

I have the group "registered" selected, which is a user group that has submit content rights to all categories.

However after going through the entire registration process, and verifying by email - k2 has NOT assigned the user to that default group. I have to manually click on the username and hit save before he is added to the group.

Am I missing something here?

Same. Any help? I just looked through the JED (extensions.joomla.org) and didn't find any sort of plugin that might be able to do this in the background...

Did anyone find the answer to this?

I've coded a solution, it's a hack of one jomSocial file, so use at your own risk and it may be removed when updating.

It will add the user to the default group as specified in k2 component parameters.

 

In the following file;

components/com_community/controllers/register.php

around line 490, just after $this->_sendEMail('registration_complete', $user , null , $multiprofile->approvals );

 

Add the following,

       //HACK to add user into k2_users table.        $db = JFactory::getDBO();        $filter = new JFilterInput(array(), array(), 1, 1, 0);        $k2Params = &JComponentHelper::getParams('com_k2');        $gender = strtolower(substr($values[2],0,1));        $bio = $db->Quote($filter->clean($values[4]));        $gid = $k2Params->get('K2UserGroup', 1);               $query= "insert into #__k2_users values('',".$user->id.",'".$user->username."','{$gender}',{$bio},'','',{$gid},'');";        $db->setQuery($query);        $db->query();

 

You may have to change $values[x] depending on if you've changed the jomSocial registration fields and orders.

 

Luke.

www.develodesign.co.uk

If you look at the code for the K2 User plugin, there is an "if" statement that you can disable so that it also works with other component registrations... I remember reading about this somewhere that was discussing using AlphaRegistration but I'm guessing the same would apply for JomSocial, Community Builder, VirtueMart, etc...

Luke, you have me so so so happy!

I have been looking for this solution for 9 months!!! and was about to employ a php developer just to deal with this issue!

 

Thank you so so much!!!

 

 

Luke Collymore said:

I've coded a solution, it's a hack of one jomSocial file, so use at your own risk and it may be removed when updating.

It will add the user to the default group as specified in k2 component parameters.

 

In the following file;

components/com_community/controllers/register.php

around line 490, just after $this->_sendEMail('registration_complete', $user , null , $multiprofile->approvals );

 

Add the following,

       //HACK to add user into k2_users table.        $db = JFactory::getDBO();        $filter = new JFilterInput(array(), array(), 1, 1, 0);        $k2Params = &JComponentHelper::getParams('com_k2');        $gender = strtolower(substr($values[2],0,1));        $bio = $db->Quote($filter->clean($values[4]));        $gid = $k2Params->get('K2UserGroup', 1);               $query= "insert into #__k2_users values('',".$user->id.",'".$user->username."','{$gender}',{$bio},'','',{$gid},'');";        $db->setQuery($query);        $db->query();

 

You may have to change $values[x] depending on if you've changed the jomSocial registration fields and orders.

 

Luke.

www.develodesign.co.uk