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Feature Request: Revise Free Registration Pro-Forms to Allow Choosing Level and Custom Capabilities #631

Open patdumond opened 9 years ago

patdumond commented 9 years ago

I'd like to see the Pro-Forms panels for free registrations work more like the other Pro-Form shortcode generators. Adding the ability to choose the membership level and add custom capabilities would be a useful addition to these forms and would cut down on some trouble tickets about creating multiple levels of free registration.

raamdev commented 9 years ago

@patdumond Great idea! I see the following "generator options" being useful here:

The Trial Period functionality in particular could use some additional explanation to describe when that functionality would be useful, e.g., to create a limited-time free registration. The inline docs already hint to that possibility, but I don't think it's spelled out clearly enough.

In fact, I wonder if we should not refer to the Trial Period functionality in the Free Registration section as "Trial Period" but rather "Limited Time", since with a Free Registration form you're really just limiting the duration of the Free Subscription, not actually offering any sort of "Trial"--the Trial terminology confuses a lot of people when it comes to Free Registrations and I can't even remember how many times I've had to explain how that feature can be used to create a limited-time Free Registration.

Finally, I would also point out in this panel that a Level 0 Free Registration with a Trial Period does not "demote" to anything (there's nothing lower than Level 0); you must have the Automatic EOT Behavior set to "Delete" if you actually want to do something when a Level 0 Free Registration expires. Either that, or use a higher level for your Free Registration so that, for example, a Level 1 Free Registration can be demoted to Level 0 when it expires. In fact, it would be really helpful to pop up with an additional warning while choosing options in the generator if you select a trial period with Level 0.

All of this is stuff I've explained in so many different ways to during support, so I think improving this Free Registration panel will pay off in the long-run.

jaswrks commented 9 years ago

:+1: