Additional Usergroup permission

[JulienT]

Hi,

Here is a simple example of using additional usergoup on a member that I cannot get to work.

I have 2 usergroups:
- Standard
- VIP

I have title "Standard" for the usergroup Standard.
I have title "VIP" for the usergroup VIP, and have ticked the box to allow overwritting of the primary group title.

1. I put John in the usergroup standard as primary
I check his title, he is shown as Standard

2. I put John in the usergroup VIP as primary
I check his title, he is shown as VIP

3. I put John in the usergroup standard as primary and tick VIP as additional usergroup
I check his title, he is shown as Standard instead of VIP

I browsed around the forum and found some bug reports on VB3.2, so I would expect those to be fixed by now.
Am I missing something?

[Jake Bunce]

After adding him to the secondary group you need to edit his profile again and set his Display Usergroup to the secondary group. Then rebuild your user titles:

Admin CP -> Maintenance -> Update Counters -> Update User Titles and Ranks

[JulienT]

Thanks for the info, that did the trick.
Is there something similar to do when some extra permissions defined in the secondary group are not applied to the user?

[Jake Bunce]

Nope. Permissions are applied immediately. It's just those titles and ranks that are cached and sometimes need to be rebuilt.

[JulienT]

Hmmm, then for some unknown reasons the permissions of the secondary group are not taken into account.
And actually, I still have the problem with the user title not being correct even after rebuilding the cache as suggested. I didn't test properly last night.
So conclusion, whatever is in my secondary group (title or permissions) is simply ignored.
Any pointers?

[Steve Machol]

The primary group must have 'Allow Users to have Member Groups' to 'Yes'. Otherwise the secondary settings are not applicable.

[JulienT]

Thanks. So the conclusion is that not only there is a config parameter to set in the secondary group to override primary group, there is also a config parameter in the primary group so the latter gets overridden by the secondary parameter settings.

For the Ranks and Titles, despite rebuilding those from the Maintenance/Update Counter section for the change to appear, I still get the title of the primary group, not the secondary one.
"Can override primary group title/markup" is set to Yes in secondary group.