Give untyped users a user type
domidc - December 12, 2007 - 15:20
| Project: | User types |
| Version: | 5.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed |
Description
You should be able to use the user type module on an existing site which has allready a significant amount of users when you could ask them to choose a type at logging in. After choosing the type you will still be able to change from one user type to an other using the switch user feature which was recently added.
Why not simply use the switch user type? Because some sites will allow only one (permanent) user type and will turn off the permission to switch. For this reason this feature could still be usefull.

#1
I decided to develop the feature I requested. A form will be displayed at login in. After choosing your type the page wont be available anymore so if the access to switch user is disabled the type chosen is permanent.
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#2
There was an implementation of the idea in HEAD allready, so I left the current implementation with one minor modification based on your suggestions: you can only switch if you currently have the default user type (normal user).
#3
Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.