How To Add A User To A Group On Registration
- Create a group you want to add your users to. This group should have "Users can add themselves" enabled.
- Edit your WebGUI.conf file and add the WebGUI::Workflow::Activity::AddUserToGroup workflow activity to the WebGUI::User section of the workflowActivities section.
- Restart your Apache server to load the changed configuration.
- Log onto your site as Admin and go to the Admin Console.
- Select the Workflows icon.
- Select Add a New Workflow from the items on the right.
- For Object Type, select WebGUI::User. Hit Save to continue.
- Give your new Workflow a brief title and a description.
- Set Enabled = Yes. Singleton and Serial can both be no.
- From the little list of links on the bottom left, select Add User To Group.
- Hit Save.
- Go back to the Admin Console and select Settings.
- Select the User tab.
- Enable Anonymous Registration
- From the Run On Registration drop down, select your new Workflow.
This workflow activity adds a user to a specified group.
Group Choose a group to add this user to.
Expire Offset How long should the user remain a member of the group?
Title Put a name here that identifies what this activity is doing.
Description Put a long explanation here of what this activity is doing.
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