As you develop CB 2.1, please consider...

As you develop CB 2.1, please consider adding a feature to routinely synchronize users. There are many 3rd party tools (help desk systems for example) that add new users to Joomla and not to CB. Please use the new user event to add new Joomla users to CB. Having discussed this with you folks previously, I know there are concerns about how to map users (where CD has required fields for example) which can be addressed by just not having required CB fields or by setting defaults for required fields. We're desperate for a plugin to do this and manually using Tools > Synchronize Users to keep everything up to date is very tedious.

Stop creating users outside of CB. I'm sorry, but that's your only reliable solution. We are not going to allow user synchronization to be ran regularly, because it shouldn't. User synchronization bypasses all of CBs registration checks (approval and confirmation), CBSubs, and more. It is not meant to be used in the way you are using it.

We've plans to see if we can create users in CB when a new user is created by Joomla outside of CB, but there's no guarantee that'll even work depending on your extensions usage or if I can even get it working in a way that doesn't flat out break all of CB. Even then they'd be unconfirmed and unapproved with incomplete profiles (all required fields skipped, field validations skipped, etc..). Below is the feature ticket regarding this.

forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/5306

Okay. I respect that position. The net result is that it places us between a rock and a hard place. RSjoomla.com (we use their RSForms Pro, Events Pro, and Ticketing Pro components) has responded to our requests for CB integration so that when the ticketing system or event system creates new users, they would do so through CB with "CB should use the Joomla New User event to add users" and you folks have said effectively, that the RSjoomla components should support CB. Since, neither vendor seems willing to bridge the divide, I guess we're just stuck. BTW, I have posted the same "Caught between a rock and a hard place" note with RS Joomla and their response is pretty much the same. "Sorry, but developers should use the Joomla New User Event". Just letting you folks know. I won't post of bother you with this topic again.

Other extension developers are welcome to get in touch with us regarding integration. We've done this with K2 and Kunena successfully. We will be hooking into the event, but like I explained earlier it's going to bypass all of CBs registration checks which more or less defeats the point of CBs registration.