Automatically Subscribe Users to A Specific Application

Hi Avery Desrosiers and Keeley Sorokti. Yes, both of these are possible.

First, it's correct that, by default, new members are auto-subscribed to forums in a group. This is a behavior that's defined by an optional plugin in Administration, called "Forum Auto Subscriber". You can disable it, like other optional plugins, in Administration > Extensions > Forum Auto Subscriber > Enabled/Save.

Second, to subscribe users to a specific application, there isn't an out-of-the-box way to do this that comes to mind. However, it would be a perfect use case for a relatively simple automation in Automation Studio - a new feature in 11. In fact, if the Forum Auto Subscriber plugin didn't already exist before 11, it would probably be implemented as an automation too. Here's an example of a similar problem solved with an automation that automatically joins members to roles. I can follow up soon with a more in-depth example soon.

Hope this helps!

Hi Avery Desrosiers and Keeley Sorokti. Yes, both of these are possible.

First, it's correct that, by default, new members are auto-subscribed to forums in a group. This is a behavior that's defined by an optional plugin in Administration, called "Forum Auto Subscriber". You can disable it, like other optional plugins, in Administration > Extensions > Forum Auto Subscriber > Enabled/Save.

Second, to subscribe users to a specific application, there isn't an out-of-the-box way to do this that comes to mind. However, it would be a perfect use case for a relatively simple automation in Automation Studio - a new feature in 11. In fact, if the Forum Auto Subscriber plugin didn't already exist before 11, it would probably be implemented as an automation too. Here's an example of a similar problem solved with an automation that automatically joins members to roles. I can follow up soon with a more in-depth example soon.

Hope this helps!

Thinking... perhaps you could even use the automation from that thread to join members to a role that's already subscribed to your applications.

Example in that thread is also here: https://community.telligent.com/marketplace/b/listings/posts/add-or-remove-members-from-role-based-on-membership-type

Yes, that's a shameless plug for the Marketplace.