In v5 beta6, Is there a way to set a custom profile field as the automated criteria/permission for access to a forum?

For example, if a member selects AZ from a custom profile field called State, can an AZ Forum and/or Club be set to only allow members from AZ to have access?

Edited December 5, 2024Dec 5 by salvi

You could technically do this in v4 and v5 using promotions. So you would set the permissions in groups as normal, and then use a promotion in Members>Group Promotions to promote people to those groups, based on the profile field values you need

that's exactly what i needed. Thank you. I'll implement this for all 50 states.

Can you tell me, can an automated State membership be initiated for a Club, and if so, would you recommend using a Forum or Club feature for this?

You cannot give permissions to a club, so if you are using promotions to promote to a group which gives x permissions, it would have to be forums

It would be too tedious for a Club leader/mod/admin to manually approve large numbers of club members. If there is no automatic way, should I suggest that in the requests forum?

Yes, you can certainly add an item to our feedback forum