How to block/unblock user with manageProfileTpl ?

Hello!

I’m trying to construct a user registration with verfication AND manager authorisation. Verification is built in. No problem. The admin receives a notification on new user registration. In this notification, there is a link to a "manage profile" page. There, the admin can see the entered values of the new user. Works fine up to here.

I’m using

for that manage profile page.

I don’t know what I need to do to change the "blocked" value of the web_user_attributes table.
I tried

but this doesn’t change anything, independet of the current value in the database and independet of the clicked state when submitting (i.e. I can neither set blocked to 1 nor to 0). I know that the checkbox doesn’t currently reflect the blocked state when calling that form. I will do this when my problem is solved.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance
Martin

WebLoginPE doesn’t have any method for dealing with blocked users (except for unblocking automatically when sending a new password).

While it does allow some basic front-end profile editing (particularly to enable the editing of any custom fields that won’t show up in the Manager) and removal of a user (really more for the user to be able to remove himself if he so desires), it is clearly in no way meant to be a substitute for the Manager’s user management functionality.

By the way, to enable this same feature in a site I’m working on, I set the default value of the "blocked" field to 1 in the database. Now every new web user by default is blocked. The manager user has to go in and unblock them.

Thanks, Susan.

The point is, that I don’t want the admin to have to go to the manager panel, search the new user and then unblock him.

That’s why I try to provide a web page which automatically loads the new user’s profile and from where the admin can unblock the user. I think, a small snippet will help me out here.

BTW: If I were that admin, it would be very okay for me to use the MODx manager. But it is a client of mine ...

Martin

Then your best solution is to create a snippet to generate a mini-form that has a message "the user is blocked/not blocked" based on the results of a query to the web_users_attributes table, and update the table based on the submission of an "unblock" button. Put the snippet immediately after the WebLoginPE snippet.

You also might be able to use a plugin to add a checkbox on the page using the OnViewUserProfile event, and then save the status of the checkbox using the OnWebSaveUser event.