[SOLVED] Auto-Action: onAfterLogin does not trigger action

We were wondering if anyone has any idea what's wrong.

We are having issues with auto-action not being triggered by user logging in, using trigger onAfterLogin, regardless of any action set. Changing it to other triggers (such as onAfterLogout) works fine.

We have tried turning off all other auto-actions, leaving only one with the trigger onAfterLogin, and still it won't trigger. There isn't any error message on debugging either.

Edit: The actions we have been trying to set include setting a custom profile field, redirecting a usergroup to a certain page, making a user join a group automatically, etc.

onAfterLogin should work fine as long as the login process completed and wasn't interrupted. Example as follows

Action 1 - Redirect
Action 2 - Field

With the above actions both acting on onAfterLogin the redirect will interrupt the process an action 2 will never execute. Please also be sure you're using CBs login module and not Joomlas or 3rd party login.

We have tried turning off all non-essential plugins and used the original site.com/cb-login URL to log in. Access is set to Everybody and the auto-action is first on the ordering list.

There's no error message on logging in, and the page refreshes on the same URL (ie /cb-login), however the auto-action still doesn't trigger (ie no redirection or any other action). Is there a way to check if there's anything interrupting the login process?

Debugging is on and there is no error message as well.

PS: It had been working up fine till the last month or so. Don't remember installing any new plugin or changed the settings though.

To debug auto actions enable debug mode and maximum error reporting in Joomla global configuration then within your auto action under Parameters enable debug. If anything in the auto action fails then it will log a message to Joomlas message queue, but during login/logout processes that can be iffy.

Sorry, I don't have any explanation as to why that trigger won't work for you. It wasn't changed and works fine in all my tests. Create an auto action with no conditions, etc.. and redirect to something like index.php with a message set to see if that works. I'm guessing maybe your redirect URL is invalid. Do not use SEF URLs for redirects. Always use the non-SEF of a URL starting with index.php.

Had a look through all the plugins again and found the cause. We were using Joomdle to integrate Joomla and Moodle, which has a plugin which triggers onAfterLogin. It seems this conflicted with CB Auto-Action's onAfterLogin trigger.

Issue is resolved now, many thanks for your help.