New User Secondary Usergroup(s) = Referrer Secondary Usergroup(s)

[macwiz]

Hello -

I am working on creating some "private" forums for organizations. I would like the organization to self-manage their users. I am running vB 3.6.8.

Currently I have installed the Vision Scripts Invites System 1.4.

Ideally I would like the invitee's (new member's) additional usergroup(s) to be updated to match the invitor's (referring member's) additional usergroup(s). I would ideally like to have this done tied to the invite rather than the referrer field to prevent someone from using the referrer field to gain usergroup access. Any thoughts on how I could do this?

As a backup, how could I simply use the referrer field on the registration to update the additional usergroup(s) to match for the new member?

Do you guys have other suggestions on how to manage this?

Thanks.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

From your description on how you want to set this up, i think you would need a seperate license for each of these forums you are planning. Please see the License Agreement

[macwiz]

Allow me to clarify:

I am running a single installation / instance of vB on a single server etc. By private forums I meant that I have added additional forums within the same site that are only viewable / accessible to some usergroup(s).

Thus I need a method of adding users appropriately to these selective groups. One method I see supported in the base install is the use of Usergroup Leaders to approve join requests to public groups. In essence I would like to do two things:

- Promote requesting access to specific usergroups at registration (rather than later in UserCP)
- If using a "Promo Code" or "Password" method such that the user needs to know a unique code to join the group - that they skip the request phase and automatically are added to the group

Thanks.