Disable membership request of a group (Group B), if the user already belongs to another (Group A)
Rhod is seeking a way to prevent users from requesting membership to a group (Group B) if they are already a member of another group (Group A). The goal is to avoid manual checks and make the process more efficient. Rhod has three main groups that grant access to private categories and wants to prevent users from joining multiple groups.
Pfaffman suggested making groups invisible and manually adding users, but Rhod believes this would be more work. Rhod also considered creating a custom field that would automatically grant access to certain categories when selected.
Pfaffman mentioned a potential solution, where a plugin could assign users to a group based on the value of a custom field, and category access can be controlled with groups.
Hello everyone.
Is it possible to not allow that when a user is a member of a certain group (Group A), the option to request the membership of another (Group B) no longer appears?
I have 3 main groups that give access to 3 private categories respectively, so I thought that any user could be curious to enter other categories and request these memberships.
I also want this issue to be easy to handle in the future, in the sense of not having to check user profiles every time they request a membership to check if they don’t already belong to another group.
What you’re suggesting is that everyone can see all of the groups but when they join one they can no longer see any groups? I can’t quite imagine how that could work.
If you don’t want users to know about the other groups then you’ll can just make the groups not visible to anyone and manually add them.
What you’re suggesting is that everyone can see all of the groups but when they join one they can no longer see any groups? I can’t quite imagine how that could work.
Not like this, but you gave me an idea, it would be better if I couldn’t see those groups (B,C) anymore once I have selected one (Group A), it would be like the title option that could only choose one, but no longer had the option of being able to select another (of course the staff can change it in case you have made a mistake or something like that).
If you don’t want users to know about the other groups then you’ll can just make the groups not visible to anyone and manually add them.
Not really, I think it would be more work, because I think I would have to be creating a topic where they would request these memberships and have to be reviewing each profile.
It had also occurred to me to create a custom field, which when selected automatically would give it access to certain categories, I couldn’t find anything similar either and I take the opportunity to ask if there is something similar, a plugin that could perform this function.