Newly created users are added to the role named "Authenticated Users"

Just now I implemented a new web.config setting that will be available after the next release of mojoPortal

<add key="DefaultRolesForNewUsers" value="" />

You will be able to populate that with a semi colon separated string of role names. If those roles exist in the site then new users will be added to them automatically.

However, I must say that I fail to see the benefit of being able to do this since the Authenticated Users role already exists I do not see what using a custom role there would provide any extra value since it is given to all users. If you want to add user to roles based on conditional logic you would have to do it using a custom user registered handler.

A more useful scenario is to grant paid access to a custom role that is used to protect premium content like in Site Membership Pro, and just use the built in "Authenticated Users" role for any content that should be visible to all registered users.

Hope that helps,

Joe

So you would have to add  a custom user profile property required for registration, and then implement a user registered handler that looks up that property and adds the user to a role accordingly.

For almost anything you want to do you can get ideas about how to do it by researching the existing code in mojoPortal. For example see the method AddUserToDefaultRoles in Role.cs for example code for adding the user to roles in the database. Note that after adding a user to a role(s) you would want to set the RolesChanged property to true on the user object and save it. This will make sure the user's role cookie is updated on the next web request by that user.

No, you should not modify any mojoportal tables with custom columns just as you should not modify any mojoPortal code.

Example code of how to retrieve the value is at the bottom of the documentation about user profile properties.