Choose groups and watched categories on signup

[Jonathan5]

I know there can be custom user fields, but is there any way of sorting out group requests and category watching from the signup form?

(Either the normal Discourse signup form, or using a plugin, or separately using the API?)

Thanks.

[Jonathan5]

I guess there might be two possibilities.

1. A Discourse plugin that changes the sign up process.

2. A separate script that uses the Discourse API to sign up and simultaneously make a group request and/or watch certain categories.

I’m pretty sure it’s not possible using the standard settings.

Am I on the right track? Thanks.

[Benjamin_D (Benjamin Decotte)]

I’m not sure what you mean by “sorting out” but this might be the droid you’re looking for
Discourse-automation
even if sign-up is not in the Available triggers list… but I guess maybe sign-up is also user added to group TL0 ?

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

I believe this plugin will work.

Custom Wizard Plugin

It is now much easier to subscribe for the advanced features Now all you have to do is hit ‘Subscribe’ from the admin page of the installed Custom Wizard Plugin and follow the prompts, and Authorize it once it is set up. Easy as! Of course, the basic (still quite powerful) Wizard functionality works just fine without a subscription. Summary Forms for Discourse. This plugin lets you make rich and powerful forms for your Discourse forum. Better user onboard…

[Jonathan5]

The Custom Wizard Plugin looks promising. I’ll have time to try it out next month!

It looks like a wizard could be triggered straight after the user signs up, allowing notification levels to be set per category.

The plugin also allows a user to be added to a group. I’m not entirely sure how Discourse groups work, or how the plugin works with a private group (not publicly visible and/or users can’t join freely) - maybe it sends a group request. Alterernatively, the plugin allows a private message to be sent, so I could use this as a group request.

I’ll look at Discourse Automation too.

Thanks to both of you.

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

Your welcome. If you figure out a template for first time set Up for users to pick categories let me know haven’t had much time to dig deep.

[Jonathan5]

@Benjamin_D

even if sign-up is not in the Available triggers list

I think it is now (at least, “first logged on” is close enough):

@joffreyjaffeux

Add user to group through custom field Recurring
First logged on Adds a user to a group based on a Custom User Field

Would the Automation plugin be able to set watch status per category based on custom fields too?

[JammyDodger]

@Jonathan5

Would the Automation plugin be able to set watch status per category based on custom fields too?

I don’t believe this is currently possible using Automation. However, I think we do have a new API endpoint that can now allow an admin to set a user’s notification level, which may be of some use:

@AlexDev

Some details about this API endpoint that are important to note:

• The API user should be an admin(so they should have global scope) to be able to change another user’s notification level.
• Endpoint URL: siteurl/t/<topic_id>/notifications
• Request type: POST
• Parameters:
  • username or external_id of the target user. If empty, the admin’s own notifcation level for the topic will be changed.
  • notification_level: integer value corresponding to the level
    • muted: 0,
    • regular: 1,
    • normal: 1, # alias for regular
    • tracking: 2,
    • watching: 3,

(Though if they’re added to a group automatically, you can also set the group default notifications for categories and tags and set them that way?)

[Jonathan5]

@JammyDodger

@Jonathan5

Would the Automation plugin be able to set watch status per category based on custom fields too?

I don’t believe this is currently possible using Automation.

Has this changed over the last year or so?

(I’d like to have prospective users, on the signup page, be able to tick certain categories to decide which to “watch”.)

[tobiaseigen]

@Jonathan5

(I’d like to have prospective users, on the signup page, be able to tick certain categories to decide which to “watch”.)

That’s an interesting use case.

You can use the “Add user to group through User Custom Field” automation script, and then set up the “Category default notifications” for the groups as you see fit.

[Jonathan5]

Thank you. I will look into that. It does have the disadvantage of potential confusion when people change their notification settings but remain in the original group.