Multiple singups for one user with ccaps

Hi, I’m using your wonderful plugin to achieve a course-type site for a client. It’s an online extension to four separate, in-person courses.

I’ve set up four different ccaps, all free, for each of the courses. I run into an issue when I have a user who is already signed up for one of the courses and wants to gain access to a second (or third, or all four). Since each course is individual, I do not want them to be able to see all four course which are available, only the ones they’re given access to via the sign up form which they from the in-person course.

I’m aware there is a way to add the custom capability directly to the user in the backend, but I’m looking for an automated way of handling this via the signup forms. Is there a way to achieve this? Maybe a variation of the signup if the user has already signed up?

Many thanks!

Thank you for your inquiry.

I think what you’re looking for are Shortcode Conditionals. I’m assuming that Users need a specific capability/level to be able to access certain Custom Capabilities. You can give them access to different forms based on what they can currently access this way:

Knowledge Base » Simple Shortcode Conditionals

Will that work for you? :-)

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for the quick response.

I’m already using conditional for the content but I’m looking for something for the sign up forms now. I didn’t see anything on that page that could work.

My set up is one signup for each custom capability (I have four). So let’s say the user has signed up for a ccap called “Music” and later I want him/her to gain access to ccap “Video”, the signup form won’t allow it since he is already a member of the site under “Music”. I’d like to find a way to allow him to sign up to “Video” without letting him/her to see the other ccaps I have available.

Hope that makes more sense. Thanks! :)

I’m very sorry for the delay in response. Thank you very much for your patience with us.

I’m sorry I didn’t grasp the fact that all of your Custom Capabilities were free until just now. That’s my fault. The correct answer in this case is that if you want your Users to be able to upgrade (for free), you’ll have to use some custom PHP code. We have documentation on how you can do that in this article:

Knowledge Base » Changing Roles/Capabilities via PHP

So if you want to allow a User that has access to Custom Capability music to Custom Capability video, you would create a form that would allow certain Users to trigger this code to fire for them:

<?php
global $current_user;
$current_user->add_cap('access_s2member_ccap_video');

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I’m sorry for how hard this is accomplish. I’m going to talk to Jason (Lead Developer) and attempt to get the ability for free upgrades possible with s2Member Pro, as the Modification version of Free Registration Pro Forms ASAP.

Thanks for your understanding.