role which prevents new members from sending a Pm without creating a public post

[Rachie1986]

Hi All,

This was active on my community but it was removed by an admin in error. Anyone know how I can make it so new members cannot send a PM without posting first? As a rule/role for a new member.

[lilim]

Create a role that has PM permissions denied.

Set this as a role that is applied to all new users.

Create another role that has the permissions setup as you want.

Have this role granted with a rank earned after creating 1 post.

Be sure the previous role is also removed when earning this rank.

[Rachie1986]

Thanks @lilim  is there a userguide for step by step on this? 

[lilim · Accepted solution]

Hi @Rachie1986 - I don't believe there are specific instructions on how to do this, but there is general documentation here on roles and ranks:

https://community.khoros.com/t5/Roles-and-permissions/Create-a-role/ta-p/108809

https://community.khoros.com/t5/Roles-and-permissions/Assign-a-role-to-a-member-upon-registration/ta...

https://community.khoros.com/t5/Rankings/tkb-p/rankings

[Rachie1986]

Thanks @lilim  I've created a new role with Pms turned off and I already have the new member role. so how can I make both work together? is that the ranking piece? So I'll need to create a new rank that holds both the New member role and the blocked PM role and then another rank with 1 post which only holds the new member role. Does that make sense? In other words am i correct in thinking that will work?

[lilim]

Can you make the new member role just not have the permission to send PMs? That way you don't have to worry about 2 different roles. Or do you intend for the New Member role to go beyond just the user's first post?

The article here has info on assigning a role with a rank:

https://community.khoros.com/t5/Roles-and-permissions/Assign-roles-to-users/ta-p/108807

[Rachie1986]

Yeah you see I'm working off an existing structure and New member is the role common to 4 ranks which probably needs to be looked at.