1. I would like members to manage just one profile, but have ability to switch to another profile in another quota, leaving the first profile behind. And perhaps to be able to switch back again to the first profile.
2. If this can only be achieved only by switching Privacy settings, some users might not realize that they can make one profile private, and one public, and might end up trying to manage two public profiles with overlapping functions, which would be confusing for everyone.
3. What am thinking to offer is:
-- a simple signup profile with limited functions (blog, followers, gallery) (in a "standard regular member" quota) and
--a more complex profile with further functions added (e.g. group, files, pages) (in an "advanced regular member" quota that is not a signup quota)
4. Can we set the number of allowed profiles at 1 for the signup quota, and also just 1 for the "advanced regular member" quota, and allow users in both quotas to be "power users" for whom the two quotas are displayed and thus made available?
(i.e. after signup, can the user switch to another profile in a different quota, and abandon the first profile in the signup quota?)
5. Or does the number of profiles have to match the number of quotas made available, or be at least two for a power user with access to two or more quotas?
(meaning that the original profile associated with an account cannot be abandoned)?
6. Perhaps the simplest solution is to only let users have an "Advanced Regular Member" profile by asking Admin to manually switch their entire account from one quota to another.
I think I have persuaded myself to take the last route - Route 6.
This is likely easier than offering complex alternatives and then having to tell members how to switch between them.
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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
Migrated from Ning 2.0. Now at Jamroom 6 beta and using Jamroom Hosting for The Research Cooperative (researchcooperative.org)
updated by @researchcooperative: 05/05/18 09:53:16AM
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