Invitations

ezra

I'm running a small Vanilla 2 forum as a test with some friends. We recently started getting shown in search results from google, so we decided to turn the forum private (as I said, it's a test). One thing is that I set the forum to be invite only for registrations, so we can control who would join. But the option to send invitation emails only appears for the admin users. I tried giving privileges to a bunch of the options for the member role, but none seemed to do the trick. Is there some combination of privileges I need to grant so normal members can send invites?

kingdumb

Hey Ezra,
Unfortunatly I have no answer to your question, but on the initial problem [ie showning up in searches]
Might be good to include a robots.txt file

User-agent: *

Disallow:

ezra

Thanks for the advice on the robots.txt file. I don't know why I didn't think about that.

I'd still like to know about the invitation system, if anybody knows about that. As we would like to make sure that we control who registers.

benno

Hi @ezra,

I think there is a bug in the "Registration" section in the admin panel.

If you open up your /conf/config.php file and try setting:

And look for a line that looks like:

$Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles'] = 'arr:{"8":"0","16":"0"}';

Try changing it to:

$Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles'] = 'arr:{"8":"-1","16":"-1"}';

Which should allow unlimited invites for members and administrators.

I guess its worth a shot to see if it works as a temporary fix until someone pin-points the problem in the administration panel.

ezra

That did it! Thanks a lot, benno!

benno

No problem, I'll try and have a look into the administration panel later and find out why its not working then either provide a fix or a file a bug report.

benno

Looking into it further there appears to be a missing closing table tag in the registration.php view. This caused rendering issues in IE.

It seems to work ok in Firefox, allowing you to change/tweak the settings through the administration. Select "Registration" under "Users" and change the "Invertations per month" at the bottom.