how can I create a rule for a user group

[gimsy]

Hello everyone. I would like to know how to oblige the new members to say hello in the special greetings section before being able to access all the sections of the forum
vbulletin 5.3.2
regards

[glennrocksvb]

1. Create a new usergroup off the Registered Users usergroup.
2. In the.Channels Permissions, deny permissions to all the channels except the Greeting channel for the created usergroup and other usergroups (if any) except the Registered Usergroup.
3. Create a User Promotion that will promote the users in Registered Users to the new usergroup after they did their first post.

[glennrocksvb]

Optional: Create a Notice for Registered Usergroup to let the users know they have to make a first post in the Greeting forum before they are able to see the rest of the content. And after making their first posts, it may take a while before they are promoted to the new usergroup. The User Promotion scheduled task runs once an hour and by default is dependent on if users are visiting your site. If no visitors then no scheduled task will run. You can prevent this and use the server cron job to run scheduled tasks even without visitors.

You may also want to rename Registered Users to Registered Users Without Posts to make it more descriptive.

[ssfnl]

At first I was a bit confused by your description to set up the new usergroup. I couldn't figure out how the new (secondary) group would have less permissions than the existing Registered Users usergroup. Seemed impossible to achieve. Now I think I do understand the process.

1. Create a new secondary usergroup that has the exact same permissions as Registered Users. This will be the group to be promoted to.
2. Move all registered users to this new usergroup (how is this done?).
3. Limit the permissions for the old Registered Users usergroup to the Greeting Channel only (since this is the group that new registrations will end up in).
4. Set promotion rule from limited usergroup to full access usergroup.

Could you confirm that this is the correct way?