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General Support & Troubleshooting: How can I apply an icon to the Applicant role?

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      CommentAuthorBen
    • CommentTimeJan 16th 2008 edited
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    There doesn't seem to be a way to assign a Role Icon to the Applicant role since the Applicant role is built-in and doesn't appear in the role database table.

    You can't do it through the Role settings, and you can't do it through the database.

    Does anyone know of any way to do this?
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      CommentAuthorFyorl
    • CommentTimeJan 16th 2008
     # 2
    Yup... I'll write an extension.
    • CommentAuthorfysicsluvr
    • CommentTimeJan 16th 2008
     # 3
    Can't you just add the role "applicant", and change the settings there, or change the role that applicants are assigned to?
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      CommentAuthorBen
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2008 edited
     # 4
    No, you misunderstand. The Applicant role is hard-coded into Vanilla. It doesn't appear in the list of roles, so it doesn't have any settings to alter. If I create my own role called Applicant, it would only have the same name, and not actually affect or be applied to the new users that sign up. Actual Applicants are only assigned to a new role after they have been approved. I want to change the icon they have before they get approved and while they are still an Applicant.
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      CommentAuthorFyorl
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2008
     # 5
    Can applicants even interact with the forum?
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      CommentAuthorBen
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2008
     # 6
    No, but they show in searches for users, and they have profiles; they're just listed as Applicants. Applicants can't even sign-in.
    • CommentAuthortimfire
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2008 edited
     # 7
    BenNo, but [applicants] show in searches for users, and they have profiles.


    Huh, that sounds like a bug, or IMO something that should get changed in the core.
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      CommentAuthorBen
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2008 edited
     # 8
    It's not a bug. It's the only way that an Admin can view the information that the user supplied when they registered. How else are they going to decide whether to let them in or not?

    For example, the 'Why do you want to apply?' box places its output on the right hand side of the Applicant's profile.
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      CommentAuthorFyorl
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2008
     # 9
    There's a 'why do you want to apply' box? Is that an extension?

    But anyway, if that's the case, I shall write an small extension to assign a default icon to Applicants. Since they can't change it, there should be no need to try to set a default icon for the role. They'll have the icon added to their 'User' row on a case-by-case basis as they signup. You can set the icon path as a config setting.
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      CommentAuthorBen
    • CommentTimeJan 17th 2008 edited
     # 10
    There's a 'why do you want to apply' box? Is that an extension?
    Yes it is, it's called Applicant Discovery.

    Oh and that idea sounds fine to me :)
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      CommentAuthorFyorl
    • CommentTimeJan 18th 2008
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