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Posted May 18, 20223 yr Sorry all, I may be missing the obvious here! How can I make a specific Theme the default for a specific user Group rather than it being selectable from the Themes dropdown?
May 18, 20223 yr Just now, RMweb said: rather than it being selectable from the Themes dropdown? The dropdown displays the themes that the user has access to - so edit your themes and change the groups that have access to them. Repeat until the only theme available to the group is the one you want them to use.
May 18, 20223 yr Author Thanks Nathan, I've tried doing that but there needs to be a Default theme (which I can't seem to remove our Gold and Premium user groups from getting by default). I'm sure there's a logic to solving it somehow.
May 18, 20223 yr Well, yes...you have to have at least one theme set as your default, and it will be set to those who have access to it via the "Available for" field below it. If someone doesn't have access to that theme, but instead has access to another theme (and that is the only theme they have access to) then they should get that theme. And then, if you want to force a theme to a group right away, overriding what they have chosen...use the option to do so:
May 18, 20223 yr Author 3 minutes ago, Nathan Explosion said: If someone doesn't have access to that theme, Thanks; that bit seems to be my stumbling block. Let's say I have two usergroups 1 and 2, and two themes - Basic and Gold and that I only want Usergroup 1 to get the Basic theme and Usergroup 2 the Gold theme - which theme do I make the default? Obviously I can only have one default.
May 18, 20223 yr Either/or If you set 'Basic'... Usergroup 1 will have access to it, so it will be used. Usergroup 2 won't have access to it, so can't use it - so 'Gold' will be used. If you set 'Gold'... Usergroup 2 will have access to it, so it will be used. Usergroup 1 won't have access to it, so can't use it - so 'Basic' will be used.
May 18, 20223 yr Oh, interesting - I don't recall the hiding of the groups being tied to the 'default...' setting, so I see the confusion. I'll have a think...
May 18, 20223 yr Author 5 minutes ago, Nathan Explosion said: I'll have a think Cheers, it's doing my fruit in!
May 18, 20223 yr Community Expert The system really isn't setup in a manner where specific groups only have access to specific themes and that would not include a common default theme across all member groups. May I ask, what is different about the themes? If it is something like one has advertisements and the other doesn't, there would be better ways in the software to do this.
May 18, 20223 yr Author 1 hour ago, Jim M said: what is different about the themes? If it is something like one has advertisements and the other doesn't That's principally it Jim and I get where you're coming from with that but unfortunately we're wedded to an ad-serving platform across different sites within the business that I have to integrate.
May 18, 20223 yr Community Expert 5 minutes ago, RMweb said: That's principally it Jim and I get where you're coming from with that but unfortunately we're wedded to an ad-serving platform across different sites within the business that I have to integrate. I would suggest using the advertisement module in our software so you can specify which groups are required to have it (or not). You can read more about it here: If you have any questions, please let us know.
