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Carole Asselin Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 I know about groups to restrict access to some sections to only some members. I am currently using it. Previously, when using bbpress, I was able to also restrict some access based on ccaps (custom capabilities in s2Member). This allowed me, for example, to restrict access to those who had purchased a specific course. Those customers could be in any of the existing groups so relying on "groups" to limit access is not reliable. I know I could grant access manually, to the clients, one at a time, and I might have to do that. However, does anyone know of a possible module that would allow limiting access based on other conditions than groups, especially if it could "understand" s2Member's ccaps? I looked in the Marketplace but cannot find anything. Maybe it would be titled differently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My Sharona Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Secondary Groups and Group Promotions should do what you are looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim M Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Permissions are controlled by member groups in our software. Adding in secondary member groups to control further access for a user beyond their typical primary member group would be advised here and their purpose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carole Asselin Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 So, if I have 10 courses, or 10 cohorts, I would need to create 10 secondary groups? And how would the members be added to those groups? I can only see a manual process here. Is that right? So if I have students registering for Course A, I would have to manually add them to Group A, and if they cancel the course, I have to manually remove them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim M Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 3 minutes ago, Carole Asselin said: So, if I have 10 courses, or 10 cohorts, I would need to create 10 secondary groups? And how would the members be added to those groups? I can only see a manual process here. Is that right? So if I have students registering for Course A, I would have to manually add them to Group A, and if they cancel the course, I have to manually remove them? Yes, if each individual course requires an individual access management. How do individuals sign up now for courses? Have you considered using our Commerce solution? That would manage assignment for you. Once they purchase a course, you can have it automatically assign them the secondary member group. If these are subscription-based timelines, it can even remove the secondary member group if they don't renew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carole Asselin Posted January 2 Author Share Posted January 2 12 minutes ago, Jim M said: How do individuals sign up now for courses? If I was starting from scratch, I surely would consider it, but I have built my whole site using s2Member for over 10 years now so all the content is restricted based on their ccaps (custom capabilities, which are like tags associated with their purchase). It is not like the forum is the only content that has to be "restricted" but the downloads, the videos, etc. and those are not hosted inside the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim M Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 53 minutes ago, Carole Asselin said: If I was starting from scratch, I surely would consider it, but I have built my whole site using s2Member for over 10 years now so all the content is restricted based on their ccaps (custom capabilities, which are like tags associated with their purchase). It is not like the forum is the only content that has to be "restricted" but the downloads, the videos, etc. and those are not hosted inside the forum. You would likely need to build a custom SSO which associates with this and assigns the secondary groups based on the tags then if you wanted to have this be done automatically. Otherwise, yes, you would need to do this manually because you are coordinating this outside the software. Carole Asselin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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