Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Move Inactive and Lurker Users To New Usergroup

As of 23 Nov 2017 this modification has been withdrawn.

This runs daily to check the activity of members and move them to a new usergroup if they meet certain rules.

Lurkers
If a member has not posted on the forum for a defined number of days (90 by default) then they will be moved from their existing usergroup to the defined usergroup (this can be any existing usergroup, however, you should really create a new 'Lurkers' group

Inactive Members
If a member has not visited the forum for a defined number of days (180 by default) then they will again be moved from their existing usergroup to the defined usergroup (this can also be any existing usergroup, however, you should again really create a new 'Inactive Users' group.

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

If a member of the Inactive usergroup returns to the forum, or the Lurkers usergroup posts again, and auto-restore is enabled, they are automatically restored either to another pre-defined usergroup (by default this is usergroup 2, Registered Users) or to the usergroup they were in before they got initially moved. Note that if you use this option then you really must have seperate Inactive and Lurker usergroups, otherwise you are going to get in a mess.

Any of the options above can be disabled if not required. All options are in ACP > Options > Inactive and Lurker Members

To install simply download the file and import in vbulletin using the product manager.

Note: The move of inactive users is done once per day as part of the existing vbulletin daily update cron job. The restore function should be pretty much instant. Also, this works purely on the Primary usergroup, secondary groups are neither checked or altered.


History:

v4.0.1 : 02-Jan-2010 : Initial release for vb 4.0.0 Gold.
v4.0.2 : 02-Jan-2010 : Prevent restore to usergroup 0 if old usergroup data is missing.
v4.0.3 : 16-Feb-2010 : Lurker & Inactive settings split out.
v4.0.4 : 18-Feb-2010 : Installer & code updates.
v4.0.5 : 12-Sep-2010 : Fix bug in disable options.

v4.1.0 : 04-Dec-2010 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.

v4.1.7.0 : 16-Oct-2011 : Updated for vBulletin 4.1.7.

v4.2.0.0 : 24-May-2012 : Updated for vBulletin 4.2.0.

[M.C.]

brilliant, but is it possible to send warning email to users before they send to lurker/inactive group? May be from this hack: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=237531

[KGodel]

Hey Paul! Just wondering if there was an easy way to have this user the data manager so the usergroup changes are logged in the user's change history. Thanks!

[Paul M]

Not as it stands, it uses simple direct queries, it does not process users one at a time.

[KGodel]

Would it be possible to create a hidden profile field that logs the date then and do that at the same time?

[M.C.]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Restores are not done by the cron job, they are automatically processed when you visit the site.

In the case of Lurkers, it wont actually occur until the next time the member visits a page. So if they post, and then leave, they wont get restored until they return.

Hmm.. how to restore user title and ranks then? Do I need manually run update user title and ranks every time?

Would be nice to have cron job to update user title and ranks if they restore they usergroup

[kamrandahir]

i scan now tell me how i Delete all 127,988 users???

http://i.imgur.com/hJqIHQR.png

[Jennifer2010]

Thank you for the awesome plugin! I have been using it for almost a year now and it has been working great until recently when I accidentally merged the inactive users into another usergroup (registered users). Now, no one is put back into the inactive section. I'm wondering where this vbulletin hourly cron is to make sure that it's running. Is there a way I can manually run it to get through all of the users again? Thank you!

P.S. - Is there supposed to be a task in the "Scheduled Tasks" section for this? There isn't one, and I ran every scheduled task there is to manually start it, and still no one (out of 55,000 members) is moved into the usergroups

[Paul M]

It hooks into the daily scheduled task, not hourly. I dont recall the name of it exactly.

[Jennifer2010]

Originally Posted by Paul M

It hooks into the daily scheduled task, not hourly. I dont recall the name of it exactly.

I apologize, I fixed the problem.

I re-installed, re-checked the settings and ran the "Daily Cleanup" task and it worked!

I think I may have not tried running that the first time when I had the issue, but not entirely sure. I think I may have been using the older version of the plugin anyways.

Thank you for your response, Paul!

[xmachine]

This is still a great mod!