This can be done with a User Registered Event Handler (custom development). I set up a system like this for our site; we wanted to be able to assign specific roles to new users that exist in Active Directory (our internal users). If you are interested, I can give you some code samples.

Jamie

I've been in contact with Joe Audette about this, since there have been several requests for it recently in the forums. He said that he's added an item to his product tracker to add this functionality to mojoPortal at some point in the future. When it's available, there will be a new site setting where administrators can assign one or more default roles to all new site users. As always, there is no time frame for when this may appear, since development priorities are constantly changing.

If you need more advanced functionality, like distinguishing between LDAP and site registered users like we do, that will still require some custom development of a user registered event handler to accomplish.

Jamie

Well, I'd say that first off if you can wait on Joe to put this change into the core, that would be the best option. But if you can't wait and really want to use the custom user handler method, you'll need to either do some custom development in C# in Visual Studio 2010 (or work with someone who can), and do the following:

• Create a user handler class, starting from Joe's provided code skeleton, and build it to a DLL file.
• Deploy that custom DLL to the /bin directory of your mojoPortal installation
• Create a .config file as outlined on that user handler page and place it as instructed.
• Run www.yoursite.com/setup to register the user handler with your installation

Now, that's the ideal bare minimum required. Realistically, there will be a lot of testing cycles needed to make sure that it's doing what you want, before you deploy to production. Also, I'm assuming that you would be hardcoding the role name directly into the user handler code. If you want to make a user-maintainable screen for selecting the roles, that adds an additional layer of complexity. I made ours user maintainable by creating an aspx page that does per-site database updates, and added it as a custom Administration menu item.

I hope that helps,

Jamie

No, I haven't seen anything about it yet in the source code updates, and I don't have any information beyond that.

Jamie