How do you create an automation that will exclude members in a certain role from moderation?

In Community v12, there's a setting for this out-of-the-box: Administration > Moderation Options > Exemptions > Exempt Roles.

In v11, you can't quite accomplish it the same way, but you can manage a similar behavior with automations. A couple notes:

• You can manage a list of roles via a configuration option using core_v2_roleLookup.
• You can trigger from AbuseAppeal.AfterCreate to detect if the AuthorUserId is a member of one of the configured roles (core_v2_roleUsers.IsUserInRoles), and approve the appeal (core_v2_abuseAppeal.AcceptAppeal). This won't prevent any of the reports, but it will automate their approval.

In Community v12, there's a setting for this out-of-the-box: Administration > Moderation Options > Exemptions > Exempt Roles.

In v11, you can't quite accomplish it the same way, but you can manage a similar behavior with automations. A couple notes:

• You can manage a list of roles via a configuration option using core_v2_roleLookup.
• You can trigger from AbuseAppeal.AfterCreate to detect if the AuthorUserId is a member of one of the configured roles (core_v2_roleUsers.IsUserInRoles), and approve the appeal (core_v2_abuseAppeal.AcceptAppeal). This won't prevent any of the reports, but it will automate their approval.

Thanks  . I'm not that familiar with automation, but I can read up on it in the developer training area. It's good to know that there is a setting in v12 for exempt roles.

FYI:  Geneva Cooper  lallison 

alexandra.brais - can you help me look at the developer training resources for automation here?:  Automations 

We need to look at creating an automation that will exclude members in a certain role. Can this be easily achieved? 

 Steven Heffner (sheffner), please point us to any resources that you think will be particularly helpful. Thank you.

 core_v2_roleLookup Property Template 

 AbuseAppeal.AfterCreate Automation Event 

 core_v2_roleUsers Script API 

 core_v2_abuseAppeal Script API  

 ... plus more in the API Documentation and Developer Training sections.