Group policies to allow new players to auto-join?

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sidlondon asked Sep 18, '22

Group policies to allow new players to auto-join?

{
    "Action": "Create",
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Resource": "pfrn:group--*!*/Applications/*",
    "Principal": {
      "ChildOf": {
        "EntityType": "title",
        "EntityId": "48621"
      }
    },
    "Comment": "Allow all entities to apply to join the group",
    "Condition": null
  },
  {
    "Action": "Accept",
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Resource": "pfrn:group--group!*/Applications/*",
    "Principal": {
      "ChildOf": {
        "EntityType": "title",
        "EntityId": "48621"
      }
    },
    "Comment": "Allow any player to auto-join the group (no authorisation needed)",
    "Condition": null
  },

I have a few groups that I want new players to be able to automatically join on request via the client (so no one needs to accept their application). I've set up the attached group policy, but it doesn't appear to be working correctly. The group list shows that the player has sent an application, but it isn't being accepted.

Could someone point out where I'm going wrong? Many thanks.

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Answer 1 · 2022-09-19T06:27:48Z

Gosen Gao answered Sep 19, '22

To accept an application not only needs the permission of Applications, but also needs the permissions of Members and Roles, and that should be done by the Group Admins. We recommend that you can implement an Azure Function to call API Groups - Add Members - REST API (PlayFab Groups) | Microsoft Learn to add player to the Group directly.

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sidlondon commented · Sep 19, 2022 at 08:28 AM

Oh ok, so theres no way to do this just using the group policy? I don't want Group Admins to have to accept applications for 3 of my groups. I'd rather avoid using API if possible (plus, there doesn't appear to be an event type for group applications on the New Rule page to set a function up) .

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Gosen Gao sidlondon commented · Sep 28, 2022 at 05:52 AM

Sorry for the late reply.

To use Azure Function to add players to a group only need 2 API calls, one is ExecuteFunction from the client and another is AddMembers from within the Azure Function. If the policy works, you still need 2 API calls, one is ApplyToGroup and another is AcceptGroupApplication. I don't see much difference here.

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Rick Chen ♦ sidlondon commented · Sep 28, 2022 at 06:13 AM

Currently, there is no such feature for Group Admins to configure how other players join the their group. You can implement the workaround that Gosen has mentioned.

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