Some users don't have the invite text-field on 2.1

mnerurkar

So using 2.1 on my forum, with registration set to invite some users seem to have the text-field to enter an e-mail, while others do not. I have checked their member status and looked at the users but have found no difference. So far I have been unable to find a pattern between the users that have the field and those that don't.

Does anyone here have any ideas? Maybe even fixed the issue themselves?!

x00

role?

mnerurkar

They are all in the "Member" and "Not Verified" roles.

x00

why are they not verified? i think you need to tweak your default roles.

mnerurkar

No, I don't think so. Also as far as I see the verification thing is a manual setting - it's not in the roles. It's something new in v2.1 where you can manually verify users to ignore spam and pre-moderation settings.

Regardless, this doesn't seem to be the issue because all members are non-verified, yet some have the text box and some dont

hgtonight

@x00 I believe he is referring to their spam verification status. It is listed as a role on the profile but is actually a property of the user.

@mnerurkar‌ verify your member role is in the Garden.Registration.InviteRoles config item.

mnerurkar

Hm. The issue is that members from within the same role sometimes have the field, and sometimes don't.

Regardless:

$Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles'] = 'FALSE';

hgtonight

You need to set up the invitation amounts in the Registration section in the dashboard.

https://forums.example.com/dashboard/settings/registration

When the registration mode is set to invitation, you should see some dropdowns letting you give each role a number of invites per month.

mnerurkar

That was done, which can be seen in the fact that some users of the Membrr Role do hsave a invitation textfield...

mnerurkar

I've went through the Database looking at the users I know which have the field and those which have reported not having it. It seems as if "Show email" is the only thing that is different for these two groups: All who had the field had it set to 0, all who didn't have the field had it set to 1. So this is not neccessarily a correllation yet - I've asked the users to change their settings and we'll see if that's the culprit.

mnerurkar

Alright... it doesn't seem to be the cause.

mnerurkar

Anyone have any other ideas?

hgtonight

@mnerurkar‌ If that config item is still false after assigning a number of invites, that is your issue.

mnerurkar

Which config file?
$Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles'] = 'FALSE';

What should it read instead?

hgtonight

/conf/config.php is the only config file you should be editing. It should list a serialized array of the role numbers that get to dole out invites.

peregrine

set it in your dashboard.

an e.g. of how it might look (not necessarily how you want it. I think this is the old style.
$Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles'] = 'a:5:{i:3;s:1:"0";i:4;s:1:"0";i:8;s:1:"0";i:32;s:1:"0";i:16;s:1:"0";}';

or posssibly

I set it via the dashboard and this is what I get in vanilla 2.1

    $Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles']['3'] = '1';
    $Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles']['4'] = '1';
    $Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles']['8'] = '1';
    $Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles']['16'] = '1';
    $Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles']['32'] = '1';

the number in brackets is the role id.
the number to the right is the number of invitations.

$Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteExpiration'] = '-2 weeks';

this means expirations expire in 2 weeks.

this means your registration is set to invite

$Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['Method'] = 'Invitation';

but modifying via the dashboard should set things properly.

here is a screenshot of what you should see, select the dropdowns and modify as you need.

you might also run /utility/structure and utility/update to see if they help.

mnerurkar

Well I have set everything in the dashboard. And the system had worked before the 2.1 update.
I will double check this and see if I maybe looked at the wrong config file or something.

Thanks everyone

hgtonight

If this doesn't work, we will have to do some more digging.

I look forward to your reply!

peregrine

Well I have set everything in the dashboard. And the system had worked before the 2.1 update.

maybe you need to reset it again, to take effect.

mnerurkar

So, I double checked.

in my forum/conf/config.php I have:

$Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles'] = 'a:5:{i:3;s:1:"0";i:4;s:1:"0";i:8;s:1:"1";i:16;s:2:"-1";i:32;s:1:"1";}';

So old style. I'll do some experimenting...

mnerurkar

Alright: I changed the settings and this is the new config style, as you mentioned @peregrine‌

$Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles']['3'] = '0';
$Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles']['4'] = '0';
$Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles']['8'] = '1';
$Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles']['16'] = '-1';
$Configuration['Garden']['Registration']['InviteRoles']['32'] = '2';

I'll see if that fixes things