Membership Level Change

#1

I have a Membership site with about a 120+ Members set-up for a Trade Organization.
Within the Web site is a Members Only section where a user can log-in to see the protected pages.

I originally set all users up as level 1. I want to give a specific user access to only one of the pages within the protected area of the site while allowing the other member access to the entire protected section.

I was thinking of upgrading all the current Level 1 users to Level 2, then keep this specific user as Level 1. I would then go in and update all my protected pages Page Level Restriction to Level 2 or higher and the one specific page to Level 1 or higher. This would allow my specific user to only see that specific page and all other users to see the entire protected pages.

I would obviously have to change the Level Names under S2Members/General Options/Membership Levels/Labels.
I currently have my Level 1 Label set to HMA Member. Lever 2-4 are left at default (N/A 2, N/A 3, etc).
I want to change Level 2 Label to HMA Member and Level 1 Label to NatCon Exhibitor.

I also assume I would have to go into Users and update their Role maually.

2 questions:

  1. Is this the best way to change the Member Level structure?
  2. Is there an easier way to change the User Role via the Database (phpMyAdmin)?

Thanks

#2

It would be easier to downgrade the specific User to Level 0 and give him a custom capability (CCAP) to allow him to access the one page you want him to be able to access.

#3

Yes I can probably make that work. I can set that User to Level 0 and then set the Restriction Options/Page Access Restriction for Level 0 or Higher to that particular page ID. That way all my regular members (Level 1) can access the entire Members section but this one user can only access a specific page under the Members section.

Thanks for the help.

#4

On second thought this may not work. We have to approve each Member before they access the Members section. If they log-in before approval they could log in and see this page, which is not desirable. I will have to test to see what happens when I try this.

#5

Yeah, thinking about it just a CCAP for the one Member isn’t going to work. But, how about this:

  • Restricted Member: Level 0 + CCAP1

  • Other Members: Level 1 + CCAP2

  • Page that Restricted Member can access restricted to Level 0 + CCAP1

  • All other membership pages restricted to Level1 + CCAP2

Since you are manually approving Memberships, assign the CCAPs upon approval. It takes seconds to do so.