Author Topic: Joining groups when creating a new Drupal account (registering on the website) (Read 2926 times)

nicrodgers · November 07, 2008, 12:37:21 am

I'm setting up a new CiviCRM installation that has two mailing groups configured.

I would like to add the option to join one of those mailing groups on the registration page (http://sitename/user/register) but I'm not sure how to do it. I've created a profile for user registration and added a "Group(s)" field to it, but this shows both groups - I don't know how to specify only one.

I'm probably missing something obvious!

Nic

ansm · November 07, 2008, 12:20:12 pm

profile->advanced settings->automatically add to a group. Adds the user to a group upon signup. The group can be an access control group or a mailing list, see civicrm->manage groups.

nicrodgers · November 10, 2008, 01:55:03 am

Thanks, but that's not entirely what I want to do...

I want to give users the option to tick a checkbox if they want to join a mailing list group. This is not the same thing as automatically adding every registered user to a mailing list group.

The bit I'm unclear about is how to show only one checkbox for a particular mailing list. I've configured lots of mailing list groups but only want to display one on the main registration page. (The others will be displayed elsewhere on the website).

Donald Lobo · November 10, 2008, 08:44:37 am

In 2.1 you can use the buildForm hook to modify/add/delete the current form element(s). You might want to investigate using that hook and creating a new group element with the mailing group as the only option for the user register page

alternatively, you can customize the tpl and do the same thing via hardcoding the html and the checkbox. Instructions here:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Customize+Built-in+and+Profile+Screens

the tpl is a bit complex (since all elements are dynamic etc). so will need to have conditionals within the for loop to check on names etc

lobo

nicrodgers · November 10, 2008, 09:02:34 am

thanks Lobo - customizing the template file looks like the way to go, as I'm using CiviCRM 2.0.

Any ideas which template file to edit for the /user/register page?
I followed the instructions on http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Customize+Built-in+and+Profile+Screens which basically says to go to the page, view source and look for .tpl. In my registration page, I can't see any .tpl in the source code.

Donald Lobo · November 10, 2008, 09:28:01 am

CRM/Profile/Form/Dynamic.tpl

That form is used in quite a few different places (all profiles), so you might want to ensure you only customize it for the register case

the comment says that mode=1 is the user/register case

lobo

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