Auto-friends

It's becoming unbearable! Help! We want all new members to become friends of the creator and our community manager. In the onAccept() method of Index_MembershipHelper class, we call createFriendRequest() as demonstrated by the stock code. However, it generates a request of the creator to accept/decline it for each member. As we grow rapidly we spend too much time accepting requests! This needs to be automated fully. How can we do this? Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Phil McT on January 20, 2008 at 12:11pm

I think this is out of your reach for now Ted. The functions in the Ning bar are implemented in code that you don't have access to. This is changing - messaging is coming into the network-proper - and I understand the friends code will follow, but it's not there right now.

Admins can message all members, and vice-versa. What is the need to have a friend relationship with each member?

Permalink Reply by Ted Cohn on January 20, 2008 at 12:26pm

Ya, I figured that'd be the case. It's important to give new members an initial friend, especially when they sign-up without an invitation. This is just community management 101 and good karma.

I can understand Ning's position trying to prevent developers from hanging themselves, but we're extremely serious about feature enhancements and proper functionality, so we're constantly banging into Ning limitations these days. I wish we had more control. But I am very happy with the comprehensiveness and general reliability of the code and network.

Permalink Reply by Travis on May 9, 2008 at 5:41pm

As its been several months, I am hoping that someone knows if we are any closer to this goal? I, too, have a network that is in need of this...

Thanks for any updates!

Permalink Reply by Bill on July 10, 2008 at 9:55am

Any update on a tutorial?

Permalink Reply by MMG on July 11, 2008 at 2:00pm

I too am interested in this feature. Please let me know when the tutorial is ready.

Thanks

Permalink Reply by cst on August 17, 2008 at 12:47pm

I would also be very interested, as the "message all friends" feature could be abused - if I'm everyone's friend, I get to see any abuse / spam and can deal with it.

Any news on this?

Thanks

Permalink Reply by DJ Webster on August 17, 2008 at 11:04pm

This is going to be great to track spam from "Message all Members" and one other thing if also "Auto Comment" could come into place to welcome New members cause welcome everyone by putting a comment is now my daily job i can even put a comment with my eyes closed cause i know which position each alphabet is at. :)

Later

Permalink Reply by Trent Schwartz on October 1, 2008 at 5:04pm

I would also really like to see this. Mike is that tutorial any closer to being released?

Thanks,
Trent

Permalink Reply by Matt Gerchow on November 7, 2008 at 3:08pm

Tutorial ready?

Anyone else have success with this?

Matt

Permalink Reply by MMG on December 20, 2008 at 9:22pm

Does this tutorial really require 7+ months to write? I could really use this feature.

Permalink Reply by The Drunken Reverend Doctor on January 12, 2009 at 8:34am

Any update on this? Ning is a great platform but way to slow with answers!

Permalink Reply by TJ @ jQueryHelp on January 12, 2009 at 11:26am

I don't think this tutorial is ever going to show up because we're not allowed to edit our PHP source code anymore.....

Unless there is a way to do this using OpenSocial....