Hello, We have a private Discourse forum accessible only to volunteers. We have a sync set up with our volunteer platform where new users are added automatically to Discourse when they join as a volunteer. We also have it set up to approve all new users because people try to join from elsewhere or create duplicate accounts (which we don’t want because we need the platforms to maintain their sync) My question: is it possible to automatically approve new users that meet certain profile conditions while maintaining the manual approval for others? Users created via the sync will always have a global user identifier field in their Discourse profile filled out so can be easily identified. Thank you! Let me know if I can expand on anything above. Dena

[image] Dena: We have a sync set up with our volunteer platform What does that mean? If you’re creating those users with the API then you could also approve them with the API at the same time. If you mean that they are creating their own account and doing something to make them autovalidated, then it’ll probably take a plugin.

We do exactly this - our member (in person not-for-profit group) portal manages the accounts of forum members on sign-up. There are a bunch of annoying edge cases for duplicates as you mention. So as to not be confusing: joining not-for-profit as ‘membership’ where forum is ‘user’. Sign up for membership >> (if not exist forum user by membership.email) create forum user, set username to membership.discourseUsername, add to groups for permissions, and approve/activate account immediately. Sometimes people join the forum to see what our community is about before becoming a member, those are manually approved. On membership join >> (if exist forum user by membership.email), trample the forum user with the membership.email as above. It’s a strange case but there are no non-member users whose accounts would be compromised by a paying member joining the organization authserver/auth_functions.py 24a0f37fa logger.info('Confirming email change...') response = discourse_api_get('https://forum.protospace.ca/admin/users/list/active.json', params) if len(response.json()): logger.error('Email change failed, aborting') abort(400) user_exists = username in discourse_usernames if not user_exists: logger.info('Creating Discourse user for: ' + username) data = { 'name': first_name, 'username': username, 'password': password, 'email': email, 'active': True, 'approved': True, 'user_fields[10]': 'Spaceport auth', Apologies that our external app is gigantic so you may need to dig to see how we pull the trigger on all those steps/api requests.

Conditional Automation for Approval of New Users?

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) November 2, 2022, 10:37am 5

So just add the new user approval to that code.

The lazy approach would be to not insist on approving all users and see if that causes problems.

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