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I'm about to start a (client's) project using s9y which will require pretty sophisticated user management since it will use categories only visible to registered users. We're talking a user number around 300 here, maybe even more. (It's a website for a school in Munich.)

Now, I have never administered a multi-user blog. Nor have I actually used any of the plugins related to that. I know enough (at least I hope so ) about users, groups, and their rights in the system, but I'm not sure about user maintenance here.

I know that we have a plugin which allows users to registered themselves to the system. How are these users classified in the system? Is there anyway to automagically assign them to a specific user group on sign-up, or is that something which has to be done manually? (I'm guessing so.)

Also, there will probably be a rather huge user "fluctuation" in this particular system with kids leaving school and accounts therefore expiring. Do we have any kind of mechanism yet to automagically remove user accounts which haven't been used to a given period of time or something? (In case we don't, would that even be possible to implement?)

YL

yellowled wrote: I know that we have a plugin which allows users to registered themselves to the system. How are these users classified in the system? Is there anyway to automagically assign them to a specific user group on sign-up, or is that something which has to be done manually? (I'm guessing so.)

I don't know for sure, but I belive I remember, that it's possible to select the group for the new users.

yellowled wrote: Also, there will probably be a rather huge user "fluctuation" in this particular system with kids leaving school and accounts therefore expiring. Do we have any kind of mechanism yet to automagically remove user accounts which haven't been used to a given period of time or something? (In case we don't, would that even be possible to implement?)

I don't know if there is a plugin (don't think so), but it should be possible to implement it.