User Promotion - not working?

[tekguru]

I've been trying to get user Promotion working whereby I wish to upgrade users with more than 100 posts and move them into a different group. It all appears to be set correctly but no promotion are taking place.

Is this because:

a) I need to turn something on - wondering as I can't see any scheduled Promotion task,.
b) We're running a test system and the users concerned have not logged on and posted, I'm wondering if the mechanism is triggered by a new posting by a user who meets the criteria.

Anyone know and can clarify for me?

[AndyF]

Posted in feedback so I can't be really specific (as its outside the Resource forums)

1. No, nothing to switch on as such assuming you've set it properly.

2. Triggered by a new post, not a task.

[tekguru]

Cheers Andy thanks for that - it is working but promoting the users to a secondary group.

Just now got to find the settings to change that so it promotes to a primary - I know it is in there somewhere :)

[3DKiwi]

Ditto what Andy says. They won't get promoted until they post a new post. It's possible to run a MySQL query to change member groups based on how many posts that they have. I did this when I added a new regular member group and changed the default user group to a new user group. The new user group then has some restrictions.

3DKiwi

[tekguru]

Right makes sense now so I can live with that, cheers for the clarification.