Configuration problems

Hi Antonio,
Me neither but I have noticed that in User Profile whilst 'country' exists as an option, it doesn't appear on screen if selected and it doesn't appear in Joomdle mapping as an option. I am guessing that it may be part of the problem and that my version of 1.7 needs to be updated so I'll do that.

Cheers

Gordon

That's because the joomla profile plugin uses a free string for the country, so it is not possible to map it to Moodle, which uses a fixed set of values.
That's why Joomdle does not let you map that field.

Thanks, that problems solved

Hi Antonio,
The process I used was the same as you have described:
1. Enabled plug in
2. Mapped city and aboutme in joomdle
3. Registered a new user in Joomla
4. Checked that the user was updated in Joomla, Joomdle and Moodle
5. Received auto email with log in details
6. Logged in to Joomla
7. My Joomla User profile appeared on screen with an edit button only appearing
8. Edited but all the required information was in place in any case
9. Selected Courses link in Joomla menu
10. The screen appeared with the Moodle profile and I can't get past that unless I manually update in moodle

I can only think that I have a Moodle auth setting wrong but I have no idea which.

Hi Antonio & Chris,
I have attached a zip file with images of the process that I have used and the messages and end result. i numbered each one in sequence.

You'll see there are 12 steps in all to get to a point where the user is confronted with another form, the Moodle Profile form past which we cannot go, it won't update properly.

I have to think it is something I am doing wrong that's so simple but for the life of me I cannot find it. I hope that you will be able to put me on the right track and that we'll be able to use the exercise to help others who may strike the same problem.

Regards

Gordon

login denied message upon registration: it seems you have enabled auto-login users on registration on joomdle config, but this cannot work if you enable account confirmation.

It seems your problem is not related to description field (as it's filled in Moodle), but maybe with the country field, which I guess is not set (it does not show in the pic) and it's a Moodle mandatory field.

HI Antonio,
Thanks for that.

The Surname field is also an issue, it looks to be mandatory. I am unable to select country in user profile for mapping as per previous discussions, it's not possible to do that and the same applies for Surname.

I will rectify the auto login and account confirmation but it will leave us with the surname and country field issues. If I knew how to include them as additional fields in the normal Joomla registration process that would fix it.

I understand its a core issue and I am not a technical person. I did try to put Surname in there but failed miserably, I added some code to the registration XML and whilst it showed up on the registration form as an empty text box it also showed two lines of code which I don't know how to remove so I backed away from that exercise. If I were able to do that correctly would it be picked up by Joomdle?

If I am getting the problem with mandatory fields then others may also be experiencing it. I have a background in Tech start up companies as MD, non technical role, and I understand that many new users won't tell you what their experience is or why they walk away. Such problems aren't problems, they really are great opportunities to improve the product or perhaps service aspects.

Here's a site that I would like to emulate in my own: opensourcesafety.com . It uses Moodle and has a very simple and straightforward approach to registration.

I am using the latest versions of both Joomla and Moodle here, is that the same as you are using?

I am trying hard to get this working, I hope we can do it soon.

Regards

Gordon

Hi, Success!
This has been a very steep learning curve! What I have done is to rename 2 fields in the Joomla User_Profile such that I now have at the front end the missing fields from the standard Joomla Registration form as in:

1. Last Name, I renamed Address Line 2 in User Profile to achieve this one
2. Country (It is already available in User Profile but it wouldn't map across as you pointed out) I renamed 'Region' in User Profile to achieve this one

I have tested it out and it does work, I recognise it's not the prettiest way to go about this task but it works well for me until 2.5 comes along! Not sure that you'll want it posted to the wiki.

Best Regards and Many Thanks for your Support,

Gordon

Hi. Great to know that you got it working.

I don't think you need to map firstname/lastname,

If there is no such mapping, Joomdle just divides "Name" by the first space, to get firtsname and lastname.

As for the country: the 'good' way to do it would be to have a profile plugin that uses a select list to select the country...
An easier way to do what you have done is uncomment country field in joomdle mappings helper, so you can map it.

The good thing is that it works and it's a result

I can post this in tips?