Create a brief questionnaire for a new user signing-up in a private forum to help staff with the vetting process?

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If the forum is set up to be private, and each new user has to be approved by staff before they have access to the community; is it possible for the sign up process to include a required field to help mods get an understanding of who the users are before granting access?

For example:

The community is for… oh idk… Lord of the Rings fans.

The questionnaire would be something like:

  • Tell us how you found out about this community.
  • How long have you been in to LOTR?
  • Who’s your favorite character?
  • What do you hope to get out of this community?
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Possibly? you could create user fields upon signing up

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Oh, interesting! I’ll have to explore it to see if it’ll work.

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Check this great plugin: Custom Wizard Plugin

I use it as a TOS legal pop up (by clicking accept, you agree to these terms…) and also to ask questions that I’ve hidden from the signup process (CSS to hide, then I ask them in the Wizard with more context). It works really well. The Wizard displays anytime someone signs up and I can then map fields to do anything I want (like send me a PM, update a Profile or do something funky with the API)

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Yeah I think the Custom Wizard plugin would be more suited for something like that (only thing to note though is that you wouldn’t be able to install a 3rd-party plugin if hosted on either Standard or Business plan with discourse.org)

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FYI, there are other topics on custom questions for new users. There may be some relevant info for you in them so here’s the last one I read:

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