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What we want:.
We want users to display both their primary usergroup title and a secondary usergroup rank at the same time, each with separate HTML markups.
To do this, we created a secondary joinable usergroup with group leaders (which means that all join requests have to be approved first).
We want members to retain the user title for their primary group (with all it's HTML markup). So we created a User Rank to go with the secondary user group (because using the secondary group's title means overriding the primary group, which we don't want to do).
We want all members of the secondary group to display this rank, so we've set the rank to display "always" (instead of displaying if displayusergroup == this group). And the "Can override primary group title/markup" setting for the secondary usergroup is set to "No".
OK so far.
A member successfully submits a request to join the secondary group. At that point his profile still displays the secondary group in the "Joinable Groups" table with a note that "You requested to join this group..."
Still OK
Once the user's request to join the secondary group is approved, things start to get a little sticky.
The secondary group is properly listed in his Group Memberships table (which is what I expect). HOWEVER it is not listed in the table titled "You may choose to be identified as a member of the following groups". Indeed, there is no such table if this is the only secondary group the user has signed up for. I assume this is because the "Can override primary group title/markup" setting for this secondary group is set to "No".
Furthermore, the secondary group's rank never shows up in the user's profile or posts...UNLESS there is (a) another secondary user group with a "Can override primary group title/markup" setting of YES" and (b) the user clicks the "Update Profile" button in the resulting "You may choose to be identified as a member of the following groups" table. This works EVEN THOUGH the particular secondary usergroup described above (the one with no "override") is not listed in this table.
An alternate that seems to work is the brute force "Update User Titles and Ranks" in the ACP > Maintenance > Update Counters page.
Is this how it is supposed to work? The user has no way to get their rank displayed, except as an unintended consequence of another usergroup setting? Or the Admin has to brute force update all titles to fix one member's missing rank? Am I missing something?
Please help. My brain hurts from all this.
We want users to display both their primary usergroup title and a secondary usergroup rank at the same time, each with separate HTML markups.
To do this, we created a secondary joinable usergroup with group leaders (which means that all join requests have to be approved first).
We want members to retain the user title for their primary group (with all it's HTML markup). So we created a User Rank to go with the secondary user group (because using the secondary group's title means overriding the primary group, which we don't want to do).
We want all members of the secondary group to display this rank, so we've set the rank to display "always" (instead of displaying if displayusergroup == this group). And the "Can override primary group title/markup" setting for the secondary usergroup is set to "No".
OK so far.
A member successfully submits a request to join the secondary group. At that point his profile still displays the secondary group in the "Joinable Groups" table with a note that "You requested to join this group..."
Still OK
Once the user's request to join the secondary group is approved, things start to get a little sticky.
The secondary group is properly listed in his Group Memberships table (which is what I expect). HOWEVER it is not listed in the table titled "You may choose to be identified as a member of the following groups". Indeed, there is no such table if this is the only secondary group the user has signed up for. I assume this is because the "Can override primary group title/markup" setting for this secondary group is set to "No".
Furthermore, the secondary group's rank never shows up in the user's profile or posts...UNLESS there is (a) another secondary user group with a "Can override primary group title/markup" setting of YES" and (b) the user clicks the "Update Profile" button in the resulting "You may choose to be identified as a member of the following groups" table. This works EVEN THOUGH the particular secondary usergroup described above (the one with no "override") is not listed in this table.
An alternate that seems to work is the brute force "Update User Titles and Ranks" in the ACP > Maintenance > Update Counters page.
Is this how it is supposed to work? The user has no way to get their rank displayed, except as an unintended consequence of another usergroup setting? Or the Admin has to brute force update all titles to fix one member's missing rank? Am I missing something?
Please help. My brain hurts from all this.
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