[SOLVED] Triggering 'Users' Auto action from Cron fails

Hi guys

I can't seem to get the Users action to work here.
I have admintools installed, and the WAF / .htaccess of it is quite restrictive, but I've tried disabling it by renaming the .htaccess to the original Joomla one, and also disabling the WAF by renaming the plugin.
I still can't get it to react.
If I press the 'users' trigger in the backend 'auto-action' it works as it should, it does the jobs it's supposed to, I've enabling debugging, and I see it run through the user objects failing them as it should, except for the one it shouldn't.
However, if I paste the URL in a browser that is not logged in to the backend or frontend, I get redirected to
/component/users/?view=login
and the design of the site is shown, just like I clicked on the frontend.

I've also tried having the admintools enabled, and then in the WAF exceptions I did this:

I've now created a duplicate testsite, where I've removed all admintools from the site, it still doesn't work if I paste the URL in a browser.
If I press the "Internal Users URL" in autoactions, it works as it should, but then I'm also logged into the backend of the system.
If I test it in a browser that has never been on my site, it doesn't work.

Being redirected to login means you've an access permissions problem. Likely your Joomla menu item to CBs profile page isn't public as there is no redirect behavior like that in CB Auto Actions nor the pluginclass endpoint.

I see, I currenttly have the tab showing 'userprofile' on the main menu is set to registered, so I need to change that to public? Why can't I find this information, is it me, or is it the documentation?

It's documented in the CB Primer Book and basically all over these forums that you must have a public and published Joomla menu item to CBs profile page. This is mandatory or you'll end up with access issues since most URLs in CB will use that menu item for its Itemid resulting in Joomla performing access checks on it. You however can try making a Joomla menu item to the CB Auto Actions plugin and setting it as public to see if it'll use that instead. Such menu item doesn't need to be visible though by placing it on a new menu that isn't displayed by a menu module.

Ahaa, hadn't noticed the books, got those now, thankyou. About the 'all over the forums', you need to know what to search for, and I did try quite a few searches without luck, so thankyou for explaining the problem to me.
The profile menu item is a sub-item here, so I've just made the profile menu item public, it doesn't show, so no need to create an extra on my 'hidden menu'