Teen accounts under parent accounts? Restricting DMs for teens?
Hi everyone! I want a space for teens (13-19) and a separate space for parents to discuss the college application process.
What kind of measures could I put in place to protect the teens?
Can I disable 1:1 messaging only for certain users?
Can there be subaccounts to where the parents have an account, and the teen’s account is under their parent’s?
I have a similar use case re sub accounts - there is nothing in Fluent. I reached out to https://aamportal.com/
they might have a solution
'AM does not have a built-in feature to directly link parent and child WordPress accounts. However, it is possible to establish such relationships by utilizing the _usermeta table in WordPress. This approach allows you to store custom metadata that defines the relationship between parent and child accounts.
If you are using Fluent Forms to create accounts, you can still implement this functionality. After an account is created via Fluent Forms, you can programmatically add metadata to the _usermeta table to establish the parent-child relationship. For example, you could store the parent account's user ID as metadata for the child account.
Once the relationship is established, you can leverage AAM's User Governance service to manage permissions and define what actions the parent and child accounts can perform. For instance, you can configure AAM to allow the parent account to view or manage specific child accounts while restricting access to others.
Here’s an example of how you might implement this:
- Create the Relationship: When a child account is created, add a custom field in the `_usermeta` table, such as `parent_user_id`, and store the parent account's user ID.
- Leverage AAM: Use AAM's PHP framework to define what the parent account can see or manage. For example, you can use the `Users` service in AAM to retrieve all child accounts associated with a parent account and define specific permissions for them.
This approach requires some custom development, but it provides a flexible way to link accounts and manage their relationships effectively.
I can help with developing any custom functionality, however, it is outside of a regular customer suppor'
Ross Rabette thank you for your thorough response! I will likely reach out for more details about custom development once I’m a bit further along.
I think I saw elsewhere you were looking into BetterMessages to replace FluentMessaging? If so, you could use it's built-in messaging restriction feature to do exactly this. For the separate spaces, you could use FluentCRM tags to auto-assign certain users to certain spaces. There wouldn't be any "official" link between accounts and sub-accounts, but you'd have very similar functionality.
Stuart McKelvie that could work well for me!