By Kristian on Tuesday, 24 March 2015
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Purpose with this thread is to help me find best approach.

I'm about to build a website with 2 different types of users, "Regular" and "Paying".
The paying users will be handled manual, not integrated thru a component.

The users should also be divided by 8 different, predefined, geolocations (South, North, West etc).

These criteria makes it hard for me. If i handled the geolocation by creating 8 different geolocations I can make to auto assign to groups (with the new feature in ES) but then I cant divide them by regular and paying users. I could make 16 different profiltypes "Paying South, Regular South, Paying North, Regular North etc) - but it doesnt feel like the right approach.

The purpose with the two types of Regular and Paying is to be able to control what material the two groups could see and do; ex Only paying customers can post in a certain forum category, Paying users could see more articles etc.

How to think? As I understand the new auto group feature is only based on profiletypes not specific values in certain fields?
Hello Kristian,

Unfortunately I don't really have a cleaner solution for you right now and your best approach is probably to split between paid / free if you want to utilize the auto group functionality.
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Wednesday, 25 March 2015 03:01
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Thx Mark, do you think we will see auto group feature based on field value?
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Wednesday, 25 March 2015 03:28
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Hi Kristian,

Currently the auto group feature doesn't support assignation based on field value. This feature I believe is quite interesting suggestion. Can you voice this out here: http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial.

Thanks and have a nice day ahead.
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Wednesday, 25 March 2015 12:36
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As I understand it, after reading thru the forum, someone already did. I really hope you could add these feature (http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial/item/672).
Acymailing has a similiar approach with the Easysocial plugin regarding filter members in order to have newsletters sent out based on field criteria.
https://www.acyba.com/acymailing/424-acymailing-plugin-easysocial.html
Thanks.
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Thursday, 26 March 2015 05:39
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Hi Kristian,

Thanks for your reply. We'll try include this in the future.

Have a nice day ahead.
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Thursday, 26 March 2015 16:44
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