[Kera McHugh]

hi Steve

I’m hoping you can direct me to how i can restrict the display of entries to only certain roles… eg. only “active members”. I’ve got Link installed…

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kera

Set the directory to require login to view. And then use the roles settings admin page to define which roles can view private and public entries. You would select the role assigned to your activate members.

Hope that helps!

[Kera McHugh]

sadly that won’t help. i want the directory to be public. i just don’t want to have to manually keep track of which entries are actually valid.

i’ll do it manually for now. but maybe that’s a feature that could get onto the list?
“Display roles in Directory” checkbox somewhere?

thanks.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kera

Hmmm… could you give me a more detailed example of what you would like to accomplish?

[Kera McHugh]

hm…

ok – so we have paid members (managed currently via s2member). And we have free members who aren’t really members, they have just registered to submit to our event calendar.

Paid – or previously paid – members have 2 possible roles, Active and Lapsed.
When they are in good standing they are active, when they don’t renew, they are lapsed.

i would be super happy if the directory would automatically detect those connections entries that are attached to “Active” and ONLY display those ones, automatically… so, when a Lapsed member renews and becomes Active, I don’t have to think about making sure they are now back in the directory – or vice versa.

i have Link installed, so it seems like it should be just a query string to filter them… ? but i’m not a programmer…
i might be able to figure it out and make a custom function, and a custom template, but an admin check box sure would be easier :)

does that make sense? maybe i’m dreaming.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Kera

Ok, now I more fully understand. When you need is an action which sets an entry to unlisted when a user role switches from “Active” to “Lapsed” and visa versa. Something like this could work.

function cn_user_role( $user_id, $role, $old_roles ) {

    // Check to see if the user is linked to an entry, if not, bail.
    if ( ! $entry_id = get_user_meta( $user_id, 'connections_entry_id', TRUE ) ) return;

    // Change the entry status based on user role.
    switch ( $role ) {

        case 'lapsed':

            cnEntry_Action::visibility( 'unlisted', $entry_id );
            break;

        case 'active':

            cnEntry_Action::visibility( 'public', $entry_id );
            break;

    }

}

add_action( 'set_user_role', 'cn_user_role', 10, 2 );

[Kera McHugh]

EXACTLY.

ok, i’ll try that.
thank you!

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