Member Registration Form

You can manually add members to member groups to view password-protected content on your Govstack CMS, or you can prompt users to register as members themselves using a member registration form. Depending on the type of password-protected content you are creating, you may prefer to have users sign up themselves to view the content.

Create a member registration form

To create a member registration form that users can submit to join a member group and get access to password-protected content, you need to:

1. Navigate to your Govstack CMS from the Govstack dashboard
2. Under the 'Content' tab in the Govstack main menu, add a new page
3. Enter a name for the page that users will see when they open the form (i.e., Member Registration)
4. Select the 'Add content' button under the 'Main content' area of the page 'Content' tab
5. This will open the 'Add content' slide-out panel
6. From here, select the 'Form' component
7. Next to 'Form type', select 'Register Form'
8. Next to 'Member groups', click 'Add'. Select the member groups that will be assigned to a new member after they register, then click 'Submit'
9. Next to 'Set email address as username', toggle on or off whether you want the new member's email address to default as their username
10. Next to 'Admin approval required', toggle on or off whether you want an admin member to have to approve the new member's registration
11. Next to 'Email confirmation required', toggle on or off whether you want the new member to have to confirm their registration through email
12. If you selected 'Yes' for 'Email confirmation required', you will then have to enter a message for the 'Member confirmation email'
13. You can add a heading, secondary heading, introduction or button field to the registration form page, if you want
14. Next to 'Submission message', enter the message you want new members to view after they submit the registration form
15. Click 'Submit', then 'Save and publish' to activate the registration form