Auto Actions - how can I do this?

I recently signed up as a professional member to aqcuire CB Auto Actions. It seems like a I-can-do-it-all plugin and I'm not sure how to configure it. I've seen some use cases but it's a bit of guesswork for me.

I want to do 2 things with it.

1) I want the username to be a member's mail adres instead. So when they register the email adress should be saved as the username. I read that CB Auto Actions can do this and I think I'm fairly close. I've got the following:

Type: Field
Trigger: onStartSaveUserRegistration
User: Automatic
Field action:
Field: Username
Operator: Set(Field = Value)
Value: ???

If this is corret all I need is the email value, but I'm not sure where to find this.


2) If this is possible, I'd like to send a setdata call to another plugin when someone changes their email adress, is this possible? If so, how can I achieve this?

Thanks in advance!

1) I want the username to be a member's mail adres instead. So when they register the email adress should be saved as the username. I read that CB Auto Actions can do this and I think I'm fairly close. I've got the following:

Your current setup is correct except you need to use the after registration trigger and Value should be email substitution.

2) If this is possible, I'd like to send a setdata call to another plugin when someone changes their email adress, is this possible? If so, how can I achieve this?

Create a new action of type Code then use the after registration trigger (same as your first action), but ensure this action is ordered after your action that changes username. Now set method to PHP (create_function) and you can supply whatever PHP you need to call your other plugin.

Krileon, many thanks for your reply!

The username field now contains the email adress correctly.
However the username can still be changed in the profile edit, is there any way I can prevent this? I really only want my users to see and possibly edit the email adres but not the username.


For the second part, would the trigger here be 'onAfterUserUpdate'? Or at least I would figure that is the trigger that happens when someone changes anything on their profile, is that correct?

However the username can still be changed in the profile edit, is there any way I can prevent this?

You can disable this within CB > Configuration > User Profile.

For the second part, would the trigger here be 'onAfterUserUpdate'? Or at least I would figure that is the trigger that happens when someone changes anything on their profile, is that correct?

Yes, you'd use the after profile update trigger.

EDIT: Nevermind it was another issue that was in the way! I had a duplicate test account with the same mail adress :blush:

Another question about this.

Because the username gets set as email adress on registration, ofcourse I want to keep it as their upto-date mail adres even when someone changes their mail adress.

So I made an auto action onAfterUserUpdate to change the username to the mailadress, incase someone would change their mailadress. However, when I save my profile without changing anything it also runs that auto action and says 'email already in use'.

How can I prevent the auto action from running if the email adress hasn't changed?

You can check that it has changed by comparing var1 email to var3 email. var1 contains the new user object and var3 contains the old user object. So for example you'd have the below conditional.

[var1_email] Not Equal To [var3_email]