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New User Settings 2

This section of the Mystic BBS Configuration System allows the SysOp to configure the second of several sections of settings that apply to new users when registering to join the BBS. Here you can decide if you want to ask new users a variety of questions.

This example screen displays the options available.

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        █  Ask Theme      │ No             Ask Email      │ Yes          █
        █  Ask Real Name  │ Yes            Date Type      │ DD/MM/YY     █
        █  Ask Alias      │ Yes            Hot Keys       │ Yes          █
        █  Ask Street     │ No             Protocol       │ No           █
        █  Ask City/State │ Yes            Node Chat      │ ANSI         █
        █  Ask ZipCode    │ No             File List      │ ANSI         █
        █  Ask Home Phone │ No             Message Reader │ ANSI         █
        █  Ask Cell Phone │ No             Read at Index  │ Yes          █
        █  Ask Birthdate  │ Yes            Email at Index │ Yes          █
        █  Ask Gender     │ Yes            Message Editor │ Full         █
        █  Ask UserNote   │ No             Quote Mode     │ Window       █
        █  Ask Screensize │ No                                           █
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Ask Theme

If this is set to true Mystic BBS will prompt the user to select a theme after the graphics are detected upon each connection.

Ask Real Name

If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will ask new users for their real name. Mystic uses prompt #6 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Ask Alias

If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will ask new users for an Alias. Mystic uses prompt #9 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Ask Street

If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will ask new users for their street address. Mystic uses prompt #10 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Ask City/State

If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will ask new users for their City and State. Mystic uses prompt #11 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Ask ZipCode

If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will ask new users for their Zip code. Mystic uses prompt #12 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Ask Home Phone

If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will ask new users for their home phone number. Mystic uses prompt #13 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Ask Cell Phone

If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will ask new users for their cell phone number. Note the current prompt that ships with the default install asks the user for their 'data' number. You can change this :) Mystic uses prompt #14 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Ask Birthdate

If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will ask new users for their date of birth. Mystic uses prompt #15 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Ask Gender

If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will ask new users for their gender. Mystic uses prompt #16 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Ask UserNote

If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will ask new users questions defined in the 'New User Optional Fields' section of the BBS configuration. e.g Reference (How did you hear of this BBS) etc.

Ask Screensize

If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will ask new users for their screen pause length. The default is 24 lines. Mystic uses prompt #153 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Ask Email

If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will ask new users for their email address.

Date Type

This option sets the date format which will be used for each user. Valid options are MM/DD/YY, DD/MM/YY, YY/DD/MM, or Ask. If this option is set to Ask, Mystic BBS will ask each new user which date format they would like to use.

Hot Keys

If this option is set to Yes, Mystic BBS will enable hot key input for new users. Valid options are No, Yes or Ask. Mystic uses prompt #409 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Protocol

This option sets the default file transfer protocol that a user will use when downloading files from Mystic BBS. Valid options are No, Yes or Ask. If set to Ask the user can choose from a list of available protocols as defined in the Mystic BBS Protocol Editor. Mystic uses prompts #61 and #62 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Node Chat

If this option is set to Ask, Mystic BBS will ask new users if they wish to use full screen for node chat. Mystic uses prompt #187 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

File List

If this option is set to Ask, Mystic BBS will ask new users to select a file list type. The choices are Normal (view file lists page by page) or Lightbar (scroll through lists with arrow keys). Valid options are Ask, Normal or ANSI. Mystic uses prompt #320 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Message Reader

If this option is set to Ask, Mystic BBS will ask new users to select a message list type. The choices are Normal (view messages page by page) or Lightbar (scroll message lists with arrow keys). Valid options are Ask, Normal or ANSI. Mystic uses prompt #398 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Read at Index

If this option is set to Ask, Mystic BBS will ask new users to choose if they wish to use the lightbar with the message index reader. Valid options are No, Yes or Ask. Mystic uses prompt #429 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Email at Index

If this option is set to Ask, Mystic BBS will ask new users to choose if they start at the message index in email when using the lightbar message reader. Valid options are No, Yes or Ask. Mystic uses prompt #331 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Message Editor

If this option is set to Ask, Mystic BBS will ask new users to choose what type of message editor they wish to compose messages with. Options are Full Screen Editor, Line Editor or to Ask each time a message is about to be composed. Valid options are Ask, Line or Full. Mystic uses prompt #303 in default.txt to display the text for this question.

Quote Mode

Valid options are Ask, Line or Window.

config_newuser_settings2.1492309225.txt.gz · Last modified: 2017/04/15 21:20 by avon

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