Auto-assign e-person to a group upon registration

[admin]

Hi,

I thought it's a simple task, but apparently not – is there any simple way to allow self-registering users being automatically assigned to specific group? I don't use LDAP authentication, I found some posts about using LDAP and auto-assignnement.

Thanks,

Peter

[Claudia Jürgen]

Hello Peter,

for users who login with password you can set:
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/dspace-5_x/dspace/config/modules/authentication-password.cfg#L25
to a special group, they'll automatically belong to.

Hope this helps

Claudia Jürgen

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[Mark Wood]

But please note that "special groups" are assigned to *user sessions*, not to epersons.  Special group membership lasts until logout and is not recorded anywhere.  If you need for a new account to be permanently a member of a group, so that this membership affects what others do, a special group won't serve, and you'll have to manually assign permanent group membership.  We probably should have called them "session roles" rather than "special groups" since there is nothing special about the group.

One thing that isn't affected by special group membership is actions based on group membership which take place outside of a member's session, such as the emails that are sent to members of an editorial group during submission workflow.

If a user only needs group membership within the scope of his own sessions, then special groups should serve well.

[admin]

Thank you,

the special groups setting is perfectly fine for me, I have just tested it.

Peter

[amgc...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

Mark many thanks for the extra info on special groups. I assumed that this meant direct allocation to a dspace group.

Is there then a quick way of finding out about all the self-registered users? We are thinking on enabling self-registration in our repository but we need to easily track down who registers so that we can perform additional checks and verifications.

Kind regards,
Agustina

[Claudia Jürgen]

Hello Augustina,

there is a boolean self_registered in the eperson table.

Furthermore there is :
mail.registration.notify (5.x)
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/dspace-5_x/build.properties#L124
registration.notify (6.x)
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/dspace-6_x/dspace/config/local.cfg.EXAMPLE#L140

You may be notified about new registrations.

Hope this helps

Claudia Jürgen

[amgc...@gmail.com]

Claudia it does help indeed!

Many thanks for the information,

Agustina

[Vahe Ghorghorian]

how can we do this in Dspace 7 where is the login.specialgroup found ?