Choose from 2 user roles at registration

[coji]

How do I give a forum registrant choice between 2 user roles at registration?
For e.g. male and female registrants

I tried to do this by using the radio user field, with Role as the meta key and putting male, female at the field options
but it didn’t work

[coji]

any solution?

[coji]

any solution to this? or this is not available?

[Khaled]

Hello, Your approach should work. But one things you may be forgotten. Your role name must be pre-recognized by system otherwise new user have role “None”. You can use any role editor plugin to create new role.

Thanks.

[coji]

Hi Khaled, I did that already, before I posted this question.
I have already created 2 roles using role editor plugin. Then I went to the ‘radio’ user field, with Role as the meta key and putting male, female at the field options. But it didn’t work.

Any solution?

[coji]

I tried using the dropdown function, didn’t work also

[Khaled]

Which role are assigned when you new user have been registered though they select male/female as role? And make sure you use “role” as meta_key. (case sensitive)

[coji]

The new user is assigned the ‘Forum Participant’ role even when she selects female.

I used Role as the meta key in another field, ‘Hidden’, it worked

However when I use role in the meta key, in the ‘Radio’ field, new user is not assigned any role. It says ‘None’ under the Role under All Users

[coji]

so does that mean that this has no solution for now?

[toddz70]

@coji — If you’re still looking for a solution to this, you can probably do it using a HOOK. I did something similar, and posted it here –>

Assign role in registration process

[earthroot]

I can’t get the hook or the hidden fields to work 🙁

[Support]

Hello,

With version 1.1.3rc2, you can assign role directly during registration.
Go to User Meta >> Field Editor , click on “Role” field and choose “Allowed Roles” and selcte “Role selection Type”
if you like to use role as hidden field, fill-up “Default Field” with existing role slug and select “Hidden” for “Role Type Selection”
Then go to User Meta >> Forms Editor and drag that “Role” field to your form.

Thats it.

Please note: using “role” as meta_key for extra field no more work from version 1.1.3rc2

Thanks.

[Author]

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