Automatic user groups

Yes. I need something similar, or the ability to batch-add people to a single group. I can't find any such feature or plugin.

Luhmann: I started on the plugin, and I already have your feature. You can change the group of a user based on email (pattern), username (pattern) or current group (list).
Any more things I can base it on or...?

Erinther: it's harder, but I'll try to fin a solution for that too. Unless you're willing to use the batch assign function

its a plugin not a mod

Hmmm. I get a 403 Forbidden error on that link.

Thanks for doing this.

The more I think about it - some kind of pattern match on e-mail won't be enough for me since I use it for teaching and all my students have the same domain, even though they are in different courses. Let me describe two scenarios:

In the first, students e-mail me, and I have a form where I can batch register for the form and automatically assign them to a group for their class.

In the second, they register themselves, and then I have a list of all users not yet assigned to a group with check boxes. I can check each box and then assign all checked users to a given group.

Right now it is increadibly difficult to do this. I have to eather sign up the users one-by-one with the user admin plugin, or I have to search the list of users, click on a user, click on admin, assign a group, and then go back to the list and do it again for another user.

Thanks again for working on this. I'll test it out as soon as I can download it.

I hope PunRes' host fixes the problem soon. If you really want to, I can host it myself tho

Now back on-topic:
So at registration you want to be able to say that users that can verify they're student are automatically put into the group 'students'. Guess this could be done

Ah, I see

You have groups like
1st grade
2nd grade
3rd grade
...

and with each semester you want to be able to easily change all users in 2nd grade to 3rd grade and so on (which is already possible in my mod) AND have the possibility to check all the users in a list and assign them to a group.
Now, the biggest problem I see with the user list option is the pagination. You'll only have access to about 30 users (don't know the exact number), where you will probably have > 100 users. Now, ofcourse, it's possible to just skip the pagination for admins and have a huge list, but that doesn't look too good to me

EDIT: PunRes is back up, so you can download it from there now

One trick that might be possible with your plugin is to assign a prefix or suffix to the username of all students in the same class. Then one can add all users with that suffix to the same group... unfortunately adding students still has to be done one at a time... and if they do it themselves they might not do it right.

Hey, I found this mod (clicked on something on PunRes and there it was ): http://www.punres.org/desc.php?pid=64 Maybe it's helpful?

hi,
I try to assign the users who has emails like ...@...uio.no to assign to a specific group by using  *@*uio.no in the plugin. but it does not work. Is something wrong?