Workflow Question about required JomSocial registration fields

Mark,
No, that's not possible. JFBConnect has 2 registration modes: a quick, no user intervention one and a longer one where you can ask questions of the user. The latter mode, "Full Joomla User" has at the minimum, username and password fields. There are a lot more that can be added to that flow with the profile integration plugins (like required fields in JomSocial).

The idea behind those two is that if you're going to ask some questions, adding in username and password as the basics isn't a bit deal. We don't currently have a way around that. We do check the required fields using JomSocial's javascript validation, which should prevent users from bypassing those fields. If you're seeing different behavior, or ways around the validation, let us know.

Thanks, and hope that helps,
Alex

Mark,
Not sure what you wanted us to ignore.. some, or all of the questions above.. but I'll answer what I can now anyways. Didn't mean to delay all day on this, but had to collect my thoughts

For the JomSocial registration process, there's simply no way we can use their flow. They store all the user data in temporary tables in their system, and there's no way to call just their forms and override the data how we'd want to.

Regarding the radio buttons, or any of the JomSocial fields, we do call JomSocial's code to have it render the field. We do wrap each field in a div that you should be able to style how you want. It's not perfect, but it also accommodates the ability for some sites to have a long list of fields, whereas JomSocial's own Facebook Connect doesn't let the user fill out any fields at all (or choose their profile).

Finally, for the issue you found with "entered all the required fields (which I previously mapped using the plugin) ", I'm not really sure what you mean here. If there's a mapping for the field, we shouldn't even show it on the registration flow for the user to fill out. Because it's not shown, we will always import that data.. so the end result you describe (seeing the imported data) is correct. Seeing the field on the registration page at all (if it has a mapping) is not normal.

Hope that explains, but certainly, if you have any other questions or feedback, definitely let us know!

Thanks,
Alex

Mark,
I'm honestly not sure how it should look, as I haven't created a lot of radio buttons in JomSocial and tested that way. However, that looks ugly, we'll agree. Either we're doing something wrong, not including some CSS from JomSocial that we should be (if we can and it doesn't break other stuff), or something else weird is going on.

With that said though, a radio button list of 13'ish things might not look terribly good on new lines each. That's just a long list of things. While it's no place for us to tell you how to run your site, you may want to consider a select box instead of radio buttons, since you only want one answer. Checkboxes would be a different story.

Either way, I will be looking into our JomSocial plugin over the next few days to determine why the radio buttons look like that compared to how they look in JomSocial. If there's a fix we can easily provide, we gladly will.

Thanks for your feedback. We're not designers, which is why we do more functionality stuff.. but don't mean to ever make things non-functional through a bad UI, like what you showed above.

Alex