Role Commands (Self-assignable roles)
Tutorial Video
Roles
Make sure that the bot has the manage role permission and that the bot's role is above the role it is trying to assign.
If you want to use any of the rolemenu commands, you need to have the MANAGE_GUILD permission, or the Manage Server permission. This is hardcoded, meaning that command overrides will not affect it.
Simply give the role command a name and then select which role you want the bot to assign to the person.
Optional features
Do NOT set the require role to the role you are assigning. You generally will not want to set the ignore role to the role you are assigning either unless you wish to prevent the user from removing that role through the role-menu.
Require role: Requires a person to have a certain role in order for them to give themselves this role. Ignore role: Ignore any person who has this role. Group: Put the role in a role group (will be explained more further down).
Role Groups
Role groups are essential if you want to set up a role menu.
Role groups are useful for applying restrictions on a group of roles such as only being able to have one or the other role etc. They're also essential if you want to create a role menu. To create one, simply give the role group a name and then select which mode you want the role group to use
Every role group, even Ungrouped has the option to delete all roles inside that group, other groups will not be affected. Be careful with that, it's permanent and can't be undone.
The different modes
None: This mode does nothing other than checking against the roles required and ignored roles.
Single: They can only have 1 role in the group. (e.g. for colors)
Multiple: You can set the minimum and maximum number of roles a member can have in the group.
Optional features
Do NOT set the require role to the role you are assigning. You generally will not want to set the ignore role to the role you are assigning either unless you wish to prevent the user from removing that role through the rolemenu.
Require role: requires a person to have a certain role in order for them to give them this role. Ignore role: Ignore any person who has this role. Mode: Select between none, single, multiple to restrict the number of roles they can assign them themselves.
Role groups have additional options that can be enabled/disabled by selecting the corresponding checkbox such as:
Requiring a user to have one of the following role at all time (after initial assignment).
Removing the previous role when they assign themselves another role from the group.
Example usage:
Say you have a server with 3 factions and want people to be able to assign their own faction when they join. That's simple enough - all we have to do is:
Create the 3 roles
Create 3 role commands for those roles
Now everyone can assign themselves a faction! There are a couple of issues with this setup though:
You can assign yourself more than 1 faction.
People can freely jump between factions.
To fix these problems we can create a new group with the mode Single and assign the previous role commands to that group. Great! Now we can only have 1 faction! How can we solve jumping between factions then? You can enable the Require 1 role in group setting, now they can't remove roles in the group, and they can have max. 1 role in the group, so they can't jump around anymore!
Adding roles to the role group
Roles can only be assigned to one group.
Refer back to the optional features for roles and select the role group you want to assign the role to.
Role Menu
Make sure you created your role commands and assigned them a role group before starting. Role menu will NOT work if you have not done so.
The role menu makes it possible to have people assign roles by adding reactions to a message.
If you'd like to create a message like the above to create a rolemenu on, take a look at the Custom Embeds chapter.
A role menu can only support up to 20 roles due to the reaction limit discord places on messages. If your role group has more then twenty you have to use finish sub-command and then add the rest of roles to a new message with -skip flag.
To set up a role menu, the related roles have to be added to a role group, then you invoke the command -rolemenu create (role group name)
The group mode and other restrictions from the role group and role still apply to the roles in the role menu. After you type in the command, you will be taken through the setup process. If you want to disable DMs, create a custom message, or add new role to your role menu, be sure to read until the end.
Step by step tutorial
Make sure you created your role commands and assigned them a role group before starting. Role menu will NOT work if you have not done so. All switches and flags (nodm, rr, etc...) start with hyphen symbol -, not your prefix.
Once you've made your role commands and assigned them to a role group,
go to the channel in Discord where you want the role menu to be created. There you type -rolemenu create (role group name) (in this example, the role group name is "Sports").
As you can see, the bot started creating the menu, and has asked you to add the emoji for the first role, Soccer. I'll react on the message with my emoji of choice:
Now the bot wants you to react with the emoji for the second role, Hockey:
And similar for the final role, Basketball:
And we're done — people can start using the menu by clicking on the reaction associated with their desired role. The setup message will be automatically deleted in a couple of minutes, but you can also delete it manually if you so desire.
Custom message
To create a custom message for your role menu like event role menu you saw above, you will need to send a message. Then get the ID of the message by following the steps in how to get a message ID and type in the following command, -rolemenu create (group name) -m (message id). You would then complete the role menu like you would any normal role menu
Disabling DM confirmation
If you do not want the bot to send you a DM when you are given or removed from a role, type in the following command -rolemenu update (message id) -nodm
After you have finish editing or creating your role menu, it will display whether DM notifications are enabled or not.
Note that YAGPDB does not allow you to disable warning DMs such as cool-down messages with the nodm switch or any other method.
Remove roles on reaction remove
Remove roles on reaction remove, this means instead of the old toggling mode, adding reactions will strictly give you the role, and removing reactions will only take away the role from you. This mode will be on by default for new menus.
You can set old menus to use this switch using the command rolemenu update (message id) -rr
Role Menu options
Removing a role menu
If you want to remove a role menu from a message, you can type in -rolemenu remove (message id) It will remove the role-menu from a message. The message itself won't be deleted but the bot will now not do anything with reactions on that message.
Editing a role menu
If you want to change the emote for one your reaction, you can do so by typing in -rolemenu edit (message id) After you type it the command it will ask you to react on the emote you want to change. You will need to go to the role menu and react on the emote you want to change. After you have reacted on the desired emote, it will ask you to react with your new emote on the role menu.
Resetting all reactions
If you edit your reaction emotes or simply want to give your emote a new clean slate. You can reset all the reactions by typing in-rolemenu resetreactions (message id) It will remove all reactions on this menu and re-adds them, can be used to fix the order.
Updating a role menu
If you added a new role to your role group, you can update your role menu. Update it by typing in-rolemenu update (message id)and follow the instructions given. If you removed a role, you will have to delete it and make a new one from scratch.
How to get a message ID (Desktop)
Make sure you have developer mode turned on in your discord settings.
To get the ID of the message you want to set the custom role menu on, click on the three dots on the far right hand side of the message and click on Copy ID.
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