Sites that operate under the "Visitors can create accounts but administrator approval is required" strategy suffer from the fact that users are never notified when the site admin approves their new account. This leaves them having to try to log in from time to time hoping that the busy admin has finally gotten around to it. Of course the admin could, as a courtesy, send a mail saying "OK, go for it", but this really should be an automatic part of the workflow.

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boris-1’s picture

boris-1 commented

I'd like to second this request. It seems pretty fundamental to the idea of having admin-approved registrations that the user is notified.

robertdouglass’s picture

robertdouglass commented

Now that we have moved into the usability phase of the cycle, it seems that this would be a good issue to tackle. Anybody have time to program this?

kbahey’s picture

kbahey commented

+1 on the feature.

The current way is confusing.

There are two ways of doing this:

1. On the sign up screen, they are instructed that an email will be sent once the admin approves the account. We hold out sending the confirmation email until the approval is done.

2. Send an initial email saying that the admin will review and approve. Then send another one when the admin actually approves it.

Which one is the best (or other alternatives).

Axman-1’s picture

Axman-1 commented

Yes please. I would like any of the two aboved, or anything similar.

Since I'll be the one to do this manually. . .

gkokmdam’s picture

gkokmdam commented

Hmm, when we are onto this, it might make sense to send the admin(s) of the Drupal instance an email telling them to approve the registration as well. Admin(s) cannot be expected to poll for new users, can they? (Or did this feature make it into 4.7 already? (I'll have to move my module there then ;-) )

Andreas Wolf’s picture

Andreas Wolf commented
Version: x.y.z » 5.1
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

This functionality is provided by the "User status change notifications" module http://drupal.org/project/user_status

kbahey’s picture

kbahey commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

Even though a contrib module provides this features, core is missing some crucial functionality, making it half working only.

Core cannot depend on a contrib module, and hence a core features is needed to notify the user.

giorgosk’s picture

giorgosk
Location Chios, Greece 🇬🇷
commented

just making sure that people are aware of this patch for the 4.7 drupal
http://drupal.org/node/48835
and hopefully all that is needed is a port to 5.x ?

sime’s picture

sime
any/any
Location Melbourne
commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Duplicate/fixed in 6
http://drupal.org/node/144859

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

amolpb’s picture

amolpb commented
Version: 5.1 » 7.x-dev