We're building a site which will have certain content pages accessible only to logged in Drupal users.
I'd like users to be able to create their own Drupal accounts with access to those pages, but only those who have been pre-approved, who exist as contacts in CiviCRM, and are part of a 'web site users' group.
What's the best way to do this?
A couple of thoughts.
If you want this to be a response to an action - eg you folk send out a mailing - then you can do this via a webform - send out a link with checksum to a webform and upon submitting the webform you can trigger Drupal Rules (we usually do this by giving them a civicrm Tag) and this can also instantly log them in
If you want to do this as a self-service then I would probably be adding a wee form for folk to say 'send me a login link', they enter their email, it sends them a checksum and then you do the above approach of another webform.
I operate a similar system.
Thing to do is either A) create the contacts in Drupal manually or B) write a code thing (scheduled task / hook etc) which, upon them being approved in some way (e.g. added to the Group) creates an account in Drupal and mails them the details.
I wrote a plugin for Joomla that does this - it integrates into the Joomla account registration process and requires new accounts to match a CiviCRM record. Probably wouldn't be hard to create a Drupal version using the same approach.
