I run a small private forum for architects, but would like to add an area accessible to the public, that the architect users can monitor, where laypeople can ask questions or contribute their own perspectives to discussions that are made open to the public. The idea is that members of the public se…

Hello :wave: I think the most of these available with: groups, categories permission, custom user fields and automation. To separate users on signup use Discourse Authentication Validations chaining user fields function. So you can show separate user fields depends on what they choose on the first…

Thanks @Don - some great things to investigate!

Looking at the Discourse Automation plugin, for some reason there seems to be nowhere to actually nominate which group affected new users are assigned to. <a class="lightbox" href="https://d11a6trkgmumsb.cloudfront.net/original/4X/2/c/e/2ce57b7799fe8f1481054b4be0295d70d0a575c9.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/6paFG7aGnfMUZ6VSEoLCNnuy9qF.png?dl=1" title="The image shows a screenshot of a webpage with a title, "Automation", and several fields for inputting information, likely for creating a new automation rule on a forum. (Captioned by AI)" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">[The image shows a screenshot of a webpage with a title, "Automation", and several fields for inputting information, likely for creating a new …

You should be able to achieve what you want with the Custom Wizard Plugin 🧙 on the free tier. And your community will almost certainly qualify for the free community subscription if you do in fact need more advanced functionality. I’d approach this by: Limiting the exposed UCFs to what you want t…

Thanks @nathank ! I will take another look. A trick in my case is there are something like 15 qualifying user characteristics (currently identified via multi-select custom user field) for access to the private forum area. For better or worse, my first thought, for simplicity, was to try and contro…

Maybe this works for your sign up process: Discourse Authentication Validations

Thanks @Don . Do other groups (like ‘Public’ in screenshot below) behave like the predefined trust_level groups, and if so, is there a way to prevent automatic progression to increased trust levels/permissions for users based on usage? Or is it only explicitly trust level groups that behave this wa…

You can set the Public group auto trust level. /g/group_name/manage/membership If you set it to e.g. 1, then the users in this group will be locked on Trust Level 1. It is useful if you add people automatically to this group when they signed up and they will automatically grant the TL1 (locked). O…

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Here is the document how to set up: Adding users to groups through custom field automation

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