Can you automate ranks or user roles via the API?

Thanks, @Blastoise186! That’s exciting. 

​​​​@Shane1, can you or someone from the team validate or add any advice that might be necessary? 

@DannyPancratz you could use the API to give users custom roles on our platform using the API call @Blastoise186 mentioned. But if you want them to have the custom roles at the exact time they register you might be better using this webhook: https://api2-us-west-2.insided.com/docs/#identityaccessuserregistered for new registrations instead of the GET request. If you chose to use the API, you might have it polling once an hour for instance, so it could be the case someone registered 58 minutes ago but only receives the right custom role when the script runs 58 mins after they signed up. Whereas webhooks will be instant. And with custom roles, you can assign specific ranks on your community. 

But I’m wondering why you would like to assign a rank based on the company someone works for? Ranks are usually used for gamification and activation purposes. This topic gives an overview of how ranks are generally used. So I’d be interested to hear why you’d like to use ranks for a different purpose than they were intended.