paid subscriptions setup help. please!!!

[Quarterbore]

Originally Posted by R34GTT

Heres a list of all my usergroups:

Administrators
Moderators
Registered User
Super Moderators

Area Reps
Club Member
Trader

Right, but what I meant is are your members divded between these groups as Primary Users? The first four are obvious, the three below those are your issue.

How many members do you have in each of those three groups (you can see that in your AdminCP area under groups I think. If they get permissions from a secondary group, you have no issues.

Now, this really is not "that" many groups either so you could just add your contributor groups on top of these but remember to add them as "SECONDARY GROUPS" and when their contribution expires they will just lose that secondary group access rights.

There are lots of ways to fix this, but obviously you need to take your time as an oops that loses your custom groups on a big board will drive you insane! I assume you are doing backups before you start messing with the database, right

[R34GTT]

Basically, There arent too many traders or area reps, thats no problem. There are quite a few club members though, but I can do all this manually if needs must. These are all under primary usergroups e.g. area rep is their primary, same with club members and traders.

Do I make all these people "primary users" of the usergroup registered user and then add the "club member", "trader" etc onto them? as all the usergroups have different permissions.

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I think i'm getting myself really confused here lol sorry in advance

[Quarterbore]

Well, if you have a handful of members then I would manually go in and change these members primary to "registered" and then add the secondary as appropriate.

Now, for groups where you have a lot of members, there you may need to use the promotions feature under Usergroups in the AdminCp.

The easiest way to do this is create a new group "temp" and then do a promotion where any PRIMARY that is in the group you need to move has "0 posts" then "add additional groups" so that they gain the "TEMP" to their seconday.

Then, verify that worked as your TEMP group should have the same number of members as the old primary you need to move to a sec group. If the numbers doesn't match, then you should stop and figure out why they don't match!

Next, do another promotion that will take all members in the "TEMP group" with "0 posts" and change their primary group to "Registered". Then, repeat the process and use the Additional Usergroup option to add these "temp group users" to the secondary group that they were originally primary members of.

When done, you should have NO uses as a Primary Group for this group and the secondary group should have as many people as you used to have in the primary group (unless there were already members that were in there.

Then you can delete the "Temp" group - note the temp group just allows you to confirm it is working and you would be smart to test on a SMALL group first (perhaps make a supermoderator move where you can fix anything easily

Also, you want to evaluate your scripts or subscriptions to ensure that nobody else has their primary groups updated

Sounds complicated but it is the easiest way to get back to a basic registered, banned, and staff rights where you can then add perks based on secondary groups without going insane later.

Good Luck!

[R34GTT]

OMG it works, I could kiss you

thank you so much, your a life saver!

There should be a member of the month award