Allow user registration by admin

[dcsjapan]

This feature came in really handy when we set up our in-house esoTalk forums, which are invitation-only.

This can be added as part of a user list feature.

[ghost]

+1 for this feature!

[SamuelHassine]

+1 !

[danechitoaie]

And also making sure that it can be configured so that guests won't see anything except the login form.

[dcsjapan]

@danechitoaie That's already covered by the "Sign up" setting on the Permissions page.

Here's a picture of a test forum with registration closed. There's no "Sign Up" link.

[danechitoaie]

The guests still see something. I'm looking at not allowing them to see anything but a single login page (i.e. user/pass fields and a submit button).

Maybe this can be achieved with an extension?

[dcsjapan]

What exactly don't you want your guests to see? Have you tried changing the "View discussions" permission setting to "Members"? That would at least keep your content private.

If you don't want visitors to know there's a forum there, that's something Flarum isn't set up to do. Since the login form is a modal dialog, showing just the form would be hard to do without an extension.

... At any rate, your request doesn't really have much to do with the present issue, which is only about registration. I'll move your discussion in the forums to Feedback, where you may find someone whose interested in developing the extension you'd need.

[ghost]

+1

[clarkwinkelmann]

I had never noticed this issue.

Right now the REST API already allows admins to register new users even when the forum is closed.

This extension adds a way to use that API while logged in https://github.com/clarkwinkelmann/flarum-ext-create-user-modal

[askvortsov1]

This extension adds a way to use that API while logged in https://github.com/clarkwinkelmann/flarum-ext-create-user-modal

Issue is, I'm not sure if that will work for the new admin UI list since the signup modal component is in forum.

[davwheat]

Can't we move it to common like we did with EditUserModal?

[askvortsov1]

Can't we move it to common like we did with EditUserModal?

We could. With the code splitting stuff the effect would be minimal.

[clarkwinkelmann]

If you don't add it in the user list in core, I can easily adapt my extension to also add the modal there. I see this was a milestone for later so my extension can take care of it in the meantime.

I'll probably need to update the extension to re-implement the modal from scratch instead of extending SignUpModal since SignUpModal won't be available from the admin. But that's not very complicated, since I'm essentially extending it to remove stuff, so that's even less to copy-paste.

If we add it in core I don't think we will extend the SignUpModal anyway, it makes more sense to create a new modal component for it anyway.

[davwheat]

There isn't any easy way to extend the user list to add new items except in columns. We might want to add that...

[askvortsov1]

There isn't any easy way to extend the user list to add new items except in columns. We might want to add that...

Let's do so in a v2. For now we need to get user list merged, as there's still a fair bit left to do in the release.

[SychO9]

flarum/framework#3744