Posted by
vames on
Feb 26, 2009; 7:29am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/assigning-passwords-for-a-new-member-application-tp2384281p2388278.html
I imagine it works like this:
1. you are the forum owner, you go to your forum, under Options->Users there will be a Invite...
2. Clicking this goes to a page where the admin can enter an email address or user name.
3. this will send an invite email to the email address or the user, with a link that the user can click over to the forum
4. if the user has not registered yet, he will now see a UI to set a screenname and password. If he has already registered, he can go into the forum, and he will also become an authorized if the forum is a private forum.
Yes, this would be good for all nabble forums but we would still want a manual user/password assignment facility.
Could we have the ability to manually create nabble accounts with passwords plus a hook in the form of an API or parameterised script for these processes to enable automation?
As things stand we have a less than ideal 2 stage application process. This will in the next week or so become a 3 stage process with plans to extend further 3 seperate forums it will become a 6 stage application process.
Currently
We receive an eMail to apply for membership.
We review the application and either accept, deny or put on hold. This is done through eMail
When we accept an application we then request certain details from the member that are held on file and covered under the data protection act. This again is done through eMail
We then request that the member access the forum so that we can grant them access to this area of the site. This is done through the Nabble application process
I want to streamline and automate the whole thing.
Thinking on my feet a little here.
1. you are the forum owner, you go to your forum, under Options->Users there will be a Invite...
2. Clicking this goes to a page where the admin can enter an email address or user name.
A user selects a link on our site and is presented with an ACES application form.
The appropriate details necessary are captured and when the form is submitted approriate application eMails are fired off to whoever needs them. This stage doesn't involve nabble at all.
We then have an unprocessed application awaiting attention in our Administration area.
That application will have a check box to authorise acceptance.
At that point I could hook into the API or fire off the scripts for each of the forums that we wish to provide access to and pre register the user for the forums with their privided details.
Does that make sense?