Hi @DomDom282, welcome to the Community!

There isn’t an action for the Discord app that would allow you to set up a placeholder role for them. The existing Add Role (Discord) action would only be able to assign the role to a user that’s already on your server. 

It may be best to set up a Zap that triggers when a new user is added to your Discord Server (New User Added trigger), then assign them the necessary role (Add Role action). That way the Zap will only attempt to assign a role to them once they’ve joined your server.

Could that approach work or can folks join your Discord server who don’t sign up via Thinkific?

Thanks Sam,

That might be the way to go. We do get other people from Patreon but it is integrated so it sends them to Patreon and allocates a role. Any others who join will only come from Thinkific so this could work.

Just to clarify, would the (Add Role action) auto add all new users to the server to the role I select?

Dom

Hi @DomDom282,

I’m jumping in to see if I can help!

The “Add Role” action will auto add all new users to the role you’ve selected in the “Role” field. Like so:

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Hopefully, this helps! 

Thank you @ken.a. What do I enter in the user field? It only allows me to select a specific user.

Thank you.

Hi @DomDom282,

You will want to map the User ID as a custom value in the “User” field. Here’s how:

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This setup will dynamically add a role to new users that joined your server.

Hopefully, this clears things up!