Move inactive users to new usergroup
 

If a member has not visited the forum for a defined number of days (180 by default) then they will be moved from their existing usergroup to another usergroup (this can be any existing usergroup, however, you should really create a new 'Inactive users' group - esp if you use the auto-restore option).

Only members of a defined list of usergroups are checked for inactivity.

If a member of the inactive usergroup returns to the forum, and auto-restore is enabled, they are automatically restored to another defined usergroup (by default this is usergroup 2, Registered Users).

Note: The move of inactive users is done once per day as part of the daily update cron job.



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v3.7.001 : First Release for vB 3.7.

Hi man

I was waiting for this

thank you som much

at last it's working on 3.7.

installed

*installed, thx Paul ... :)

the daily update corn job was an hour ago, but nothing changed

I think this does not work..

I hope I'm wrong

Works fine for me, are you sure you've actually set the usergroups in the settings.

Also, the daily cron job normally runs just after midnight, are you sure it ran just over an hour ago ?

What is the point of moving them to a usergroup if they don't log in for x days, and then when they do login, they are restored back to the Registered Users group?

me too, i've ran manually the cronjob and the inactive users are gone correctly in the 'inactive ug' (that i've previously created)

yes, I set the user group and did everything as I did just on 3.8.0 yesterday

and yes as I saw the schedule and it was just an hour ago when I post that

don't forget that the difference in the time zomes

I'll wait till tomorrow then I can tell for sure if it is working or not..

thank for your quick reply

:)

that an opetional you can set..
you can choose to make them be restored or not..

ok now..

it works for me now

great..

thanks for the great job Paule

I understand that.... but what would be the point of restoring them?
It would go by as if nothing has happened...

Does this look in the primary usergroup or additional usergroups to make the determination? Basically, if a user is in primary group X, but are also in additional groups Y and Z will the hack move the user from X only into the inactive group and then restore into group X (if chosen) or do something else?

I second this.

Move active users to new usergroup will be good allso :)

If a member spend more time in the forum
like style for X hours or conut how many post in the month.

This does not check, or affect, secondary usergroups (at all).

nice thx
is there is way to make it in another way

like lets say the Registered Users who only read without write any thing of even thx after x days of Register will change from Registered Users to another group

i gusse this will be more helpfull

thx paul ur hack r always so good
i will wait ur answer

Again, thanks Paul :)

If you re-wrote the SQL query then i think you could do that, but I cant really help you on that as its a totally different thing.

ty so much installed and very appreciated.

will never be possible to have an ON/OFF switch on the admin panel options menu?

take care

ciao

Thanks Paul. **Installed

installed :)

Paul, just a little thing :p

right now i put into the 'List of Checked Groups' some UGs like Registered (ID. 2), Moderators (ID. 5) and some other special UGs (ID. 10 etc.) ... so obviously when a user of these goes into 'inactive list' they are moved onto the new UG that i've created (ID. 14) ... so it's fine ...

but when they returns on-line they are moved by default into Registered Users (UG. 2), so i need an option that puts the users into their previous UG ... it's possible?

example:

User (UG.2) ---> Inactive (UG.14) ---> Active (UG.2)
Moderator (UG.5) ---> Inactive (UG.14) ---> Active (UG.5)
BOT (UG.10) ---> Inactive (UG.14) ---> Active (UG.10)

Nope, that facility does not exist, nor do I have any plan to add it. The common group they get returned to is an option already.

:up: another nice mod thanks Paul.

Thanx for the cool mod

It says it moved my inactive users to usergroup 9??? This doesn't exist so I have now way of editing them. If I uninstall this what happens to my users?

You should have changed the settings when you installed it.

Nothing will happen to them if you uninstall it, they will stay where they are.

Clicked 'Installed'. Works fine!

Set the "Inactive Group" to your new usergroup, and add the old usergroup (9 ?) to the "List of Checked Groups" and it will move them all next time it runs.

thanks post

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Not sure what this means

Sweet...I prune every 30 days so this will help the administrators out tremendously and keep them from having to search for non-active members...

*installed*

Hi,

thanks, great mod. A general question: is it possible to keep the members of the inactive group from increasing the total of the user-counter at the bottom of the forum?

thank you - all the best,
Sacha

Nope, vb will always count them, no matter what usergroup they are in.

thanks for your reply, I added a feature request for it.

best,
Sacha

I wish i noticed this sooner. I tried doing the job manually a few weeks ago and accidentally turned all the banned members into inactive members. *installed* Thanks as always for yet another nifty product! :D

-Raymond

I will be using this to easily identify members who have not been active for over 90 days.

I can send my regular news letters only to those who visit the site at least semi regularly.

I can every 6 months or so try to get back the people who did not come back (and the inactive reminder e-mail at 2 weeks didn't work...)

-Raymond

Great mod....... is there a way to also delete all PMs upon being moved to the inactive group?
Many thanks

*Clicks Install.

Btw, Is there any option to view which usergroup does these users earlier belonged to ?

Nope, no record is kept of that.