[SOLVED] If USERNAME not required then name is copied to it

I am experiencing that if USERNAME field is set as not required then NAME is copied to this field after registration. I expected it to be empty!!! I makes trouble, as if name is i.e. Jhon Lennon, then username will be Jhon Lennon too and not JhonLennon at least!!!

Please, can anybody explain?

Hi Guys,

Is anybody listening? I have Professional Subscription, which is great, but not getting the promissed attention to questions. I have digged about this topic but did;t find explanation.

Please, help.

CarlosEVC wrote: Hi Guys,

Is anybody listening? I have Professional Subscription, which is great, but not getting the promissed attention to questions. I have digged about this topic but did;t find explanation.

Please, help.

Promised attention is same or next business day - your first post is 15 hours old.

I am experiencing that if USERNAME field is set as not required then NAME is copied to this field after registration. I expected it to be empty!!! I makes trouble, as if name is i.e. Jhon Lennon, then username will be Jhon Lennon too and not JhonLennon at least!!!

Please, can anybody explain?

Explanation is that Joomla requires a username - a unique username, so CB grabs the name field to make a unique username for joomla.

If you want to produce a username based on some other algorithm you would need to create a CB plugin to do this.

Thank you for your satisfactory answer.

Is it possible to use Autoactions plugin (or another in the Incubator) to reset Username field?

If not, would you tell me which one is the function that has to be called from the API to do it?

Rgds,

Carlos

Is it possible to use Autoactions plugin (or another in the Incubator) to reset Username field?

Yes, you can use the Field action to alter the username to whatever you like such as

This is very powerful and i am very glad to have all these plugins available.

I have here a couple of questions:

I want to make the username a serialnumber like “user_“ concatenated with [user_id] automatically set after registration.
Can i do it by just set one Field Action with set value equal to (i don‘t know if expressions are acepted in the Value field of the plugin)? Or do i have to set it in two actions, first set it to [user_id] and then set it again with prefix operation? In this latter, how do i know the order of the operations, to make it right?

:whistle: