Assigning Groups from Joomla

Hello,

I am wondering if is it possible for users to choose an OpenSim group when they first register an account. I am trying to setup a grid that has no publicly accessible regions in it. There will be several estates and regions that only allow specific groups to enter. The groups are all going to be established in advance.

What I would like to do is allow users to choose which group they belong to when they are first registering an account. That way when they sign in to OpenSim for the first time they already are in the group and have the correct access permissions.

I am not currently using it, but I know using the Community Builder registration page allows for custom fields and selection boxes to be added. Is there any way to connect a selection box from CB to the OpenSim database to add users to groups? Otherwise would it be possible to manage what groups users are in from the jOpenSim groups page on the Joomla backend? That way I could manually place users into the correct group from the backend.

Thanks!

Hi tricon

Until now there is no possibility to manage users group memberships from jOpenSim backend. For me this was something totally up to the users to handle their memberships. But in your case this question definately makes sense ...

If you planned only ONE specific group, users should be added, it could be solved easy by adding some TRIGGERs (MySQL 5.0.2+ required for this) to the database tables of jOpenSim without the need of changing one single line of code in it. But if the user should be able to select from a list of groups, this would be totally different and would involve quite a lot of changes.

Assigning a user to a group from the backend would for sure be an easier way to solve this and I added this now to my todo list for jOpenSim

Greetz
FoTo50

Thank you for the quick response!

Being able to assign users to groups from the backend would be great.