While wondering about why different things were showing up in different test user accounts’ view of the “My Sites” in the site tracking directory – see https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/site-tracking-directory-my-site-question – I came across something puzzling that I haven’t been able to find anything about in searching this forum. I have two groups that I am inviting new users to join, let’s call them “Journals Group” and “Books Group” for simplicity’s sake. When the user accepts the invitation, registers, and activates the new account, the user’s role in the “Journals Group” site (oh, these groups have group-blogs) is “Author.” For “Books Group” the user’s role is “Subscriber.” I would hope that all of these would default to subscriber, but I can’t find anywhere in the settings where I can change this (for example, a way to specify that new users always be added in a particular role….)
Can anyone point me to an answer to this? I guess I can go in after users activate their registrations and change their roles to “subscriber” for this particular site. (Doing so also doesn’t make the site stop appearing under “My Sites” in the site tracking directory for the user but I guess that’s something I am not going to worry about right now!)
thanks!
Liz
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