Convert Secondary UserGroup to Primary UserGroup

[JustAskJulie]

I'm looking for an easy way to convert a secondary usergroup to the primary usergroup for a group of members. All are in the same usergroup, but are currently listed as secondary users. In order to be able to build a mailing list or mail the users, they have to be listed as primary users of the group, so I need to know how to convert their primary usergroup.

They are currently listed as primary usergroup: Registered
with secondary usergroup: Club Owner

I need their primary usergroup to be Club Owner.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

If people in this group have a custom usertitle of for example Club Owner, you might wanna select on that.

[JustAskJulie]

Originally Posted by MarcoH64

you might wanna select on that.

Not sure what you mean.

[JustAskJulie]

I figured out what you mean, you can build a mailing list based on a user title. I tried that and out of about 200 users that are in that user group (both primary and secondary users) that pulled about 69 (about 9 more than are listed as primary users)

I need some way to just convert all those secondary users to primary users, short of going through each one individually and doing it by hand.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I mean that you can select on the user title when generating a mail list, so if this group got a unique user title, you could use that to select the members for the mailing.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I got a better solution for you

Do the following modifications in your includes/adminfunctions_user.php (2 edits) and you will be able to select your users for the mailing also based on secondary membergroups.

In file includes/adminfunctions_user.php

Find:

PHP Code:

        print_membergroup_row($vbphrase['primary_usergroup'], 'user[usergroupid]', 2, $userarray); 


Add under:

PHP Code:

        // Start hack MarcoH64
        print_membergroup_row($vbphrase['additional_usergroups'], 'user[membergroupids]', 2, $userarray);
        // End hack MarcoH64 


In the same file find:

PHP Code:

    if (is_array($user['usergroupid']))
    { // for emails
        foreach($user['usergroupid'] AS $id)
        {
            $u_condition[] = "usergroupid = $id";
        } 


REPLACE by:

PHP Code:

    // Start hack MarcoH64
    if (is_array($user['usergroupid']) OR is_array($user['membergroupids']))
    { // for emails
        if (is_array($user['usergroupid']))
        {
            foreach($user['usergroupid'] AS $id)
            {
                $u_condition[] = "usergroupid = $id";
            }
        }
        if (is_array($user['membergroupids']))
        {
            foreach($user['membergroupids'] AS $id)
            {
                $u_condition[] = "find_in_set($id, membergroupids)";
            }
        }
        // End hack MarcoH64 


As usual test first on a test board, only limited tested by me.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

No feedback? Did this solve your problem?

[JustAskJulie]

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

[trulylowcarb]

I tried another hack for this that didn't work; I will try yours soon and will definitely come back with feedback. This is a much-needed feature... I can't believe it's not part of VB, for some reason I was under the impression it was, - right up until I actually needed it... what a rude awakening that was.
I have already changed the one group by hand, 224 of them, but I would still like to be able to email other now-secondary groups....
cross everything!

I got

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_ELSE in /includes/adminfunctions_user.php on line 279

when I tried to Send mail ...

Running vb3.07 and CMPS 1.0...1? (newest one...)

[Marco van Herwaarden]

I think you missed something in the second change in the file.

Please double check you edit