[SOLVED] Override for Admin Approval for a Particular Usergroup

CB Configuration set with Admin approval set to "Yes".
Upon registration, users select one of three options in the field "membership type" (which we created): "Student", "Professor", or "Other"

"Professors" and "Students" must register for the site and provide proof that they attend one of our member institutions. We approve their membership after they confirm their email and we check their credentials.

"Other" members are allowed to search our database but they don't see other parts of the site reserved for students and professors. We don't want to moderate them since they will only have "registered" access (thus they won't belong to our "professor" or "student" groups).

We created "Usergoup" auto actions to automatically assign students, professors, and other to the correct usergroup. But we cannot automatically approve the "Other" users after they confirm their email. Is there a way to override admin approval for the ones that choose "Other" when registering but keeping admin approval in place for the other two groups?

Joomla 3.8.1
CB - 2.1.3
PHP 7.0.23

You should be able to toggle their approval state from a code action using PHP. Example as follows.

Global
Triggers: onBeforeUserRegistration
Type: Code
User: Automatic
Access: Everybody
Conditions
1: [cb_membertype] Equal To Other
Action
Method: PHP
Code: Parameters
Reference Variables: Variable 1

That should force the approved state to approved before they're even stored in the database. All the emails should act accordingly. If you're not using email confirmation then you'll likely need to use the below as well to unblock them.


Note this is only for frontend registration as backend you'd just create them as approved already.

Thank you so much! Exactly what I needed. I'll let you know if I run into any problems.