Automatically assign a role to a certain email?

omfgblondie

Site: http://forums.fatsharkgames.com

We're going to start beta testing one of our games very soon, and we'd like a closed off place for our betatesters to report bugs and discuss the beta. All I have are these peoples emails. Do you have any ideas on how I could achieve this in Vanilla? I've tried searching, but didn't find any good solutions.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to enter a bunch of emails (perhaps in a CSV document) and Vanilla would automatically assign a Role to the people who sign up or have already signed up using those emails. Then I could create a Category with limited Read/Write access.

Bleistivt

Would require a custom plugin.

But you could also do something similar with invites:

Bulk Invite
http://vanillaforums.org/addon/bulkinvite-plugin
Invite Roles
https://github.com/hgtonight/Plugin-InviteRoles

omfgblondie

Okay, many thanks!

omfgblondie

This works perfectly for inviting new users, but it doesn't work for those already registered. Does anyone know of a plugin where I can enter a bunch of emails and automatically assign a role to those?

I figure I can do that manually whenever we send out a new batch of invites

hgtonight

You can check out Bulk Edit, which will let you add the same role to multiple users from the User administration screen in the dashboard.

omfgblondie

Shiny! Thanks!