Self registration, moderating applicant [solved]

[enderw88]

There have been a few threads asking for the ability to moderate the self registration process.  The responses were mostly "don't use it and manually enter users".  That is a lot of administrative overhead for the rather common situation where not all those that register will be allowed to see protected content.  After poking around the internals of the SelfRegistration module a simpler solution presented itself.

A very simple workaround is to create a new group in FrontEndUsers, for example "applicants", that will be the default group for self registration.  When the user has completed the self registration process the admin is notified as normal and can then add that user to the group that has access to the protected content if they meet the requirements of the site.

There appears to be a bug in FEU that cause it to ignore the "default group" setting when SelfReg adds a user.  Which ever group was created first will be the default.  So make the first group you create the group that cannot access any protected content.