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Re: LInk Forum Membership with Organization Membership #membership #api #website #subscription

 

Gary,

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Our non-profit organization needs three forums, which I'm hoping can be hosted on :
  1. A public forum which anyone can join and participate in. (That's easy)
  2. A private forum for members only (we need a way to add/remove members based on their membership with our organization)
  3. Another private forum for board members only (again, we'd like the administrator/owner to be able to automatically manage membership in this forum)
As Frances suggested, it may be useful to make 2 & 3 subgroups of 1. Or perhaps 3 a subgroup of 2, with 1 a separate group. See the links she gave you for more detail on how subgroups work. The biggest distinction between a subgroup and any other type of group is that all subgroup members must also be members of the associated primary group (think of the subgroup as a subset of the primary group's membership).
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Reviewing the Alpha API, I can't find any hooks that would allow me to automatically add and delete members or set their passwords (a requirement for 2. and 3.) Can anyone help me?
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I'm not familiar with the API, but I'll echo Chris' comment about passwords: those are account-level (tied to users email address) and not manageable by a group owner. Fortunately, logging in to Groups.io is very easy if any of your group members need to do so.
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There is a function known as Direct Add which is available to Premium groups (which your group must be to use the API). See the (itself a subgroup of beta) for help with API calls. See also in beta (which probably should have been in the API group).
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Shal
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