No message informing of successful registration

When the registration is completed, it just redirects back to the /login page without any message informing the user registration has been completed. It's really confusing.

Usually, a message like "Facebook profile successfully connected" is displayed. It seems like strange behavior that you are being directed to the login page. The user should be logged in directly after registration, unless you require user activation. But even then another message should be displayed saying that the user needs to be activated. Could you verify that the user is actually created in the backend and there is an entry in the JFBConnect > User Map table for the user?

And another thing, I selected to show the fields that are being imported but they don't show. Any ideas why that might be?

Could you take a screenshot for me of the JFBConnect login/register page on the front-end? And in the backend of the JFBConnect > Profiles tab for the social profile plugin you are using. Also, you would only see imported fields on registration if Automatic Registration is disabled. If you could provide a URL where I can test the social network login button to see this in action, that would also be helpful.

-Melissa

For EasySocial, we don't currently show their fields in the JFBConnect registration flow. We improved our system for EasySocial and JomSocial and recommend you switch the "Registration Component" option in JFBConnect to "EasySocial". That will take the user through the standard EasySocial registration flow when the authenticate with a social network for the first time. The "Show Imported Fields" option will work in their flow to either hide or show fields that have data imported from them.

Displaying the highly dynamic and very Javascript heavy profile fields in our registration page isn't an option. They are very hard for us to keep compatibility with changes in EasySocial with, which is why we simplified and just use their registration flow. It's a better user experience and only one registration flow to have to manage.

That may also help with the activation message issue you're having, but if not, let us know.

Thanks,
Alex

Once JFBConnect redirects to the EasySocial flow, the registration is out of our hands. I would suggest you contact the EasySocial team to resolve this. There are other similar reports of this issue on the EasySocial forums, such as stackideas.com/forums/the-page-isn-t-redirecting-properly

If they end up thinking this is a JFBConnect issue, please let us know and we'd gladly help, but it seems outside the realm of our product right now.

-Melissa

JFBConnect uses a different mechanism than what's built into EasySocial, so that doesn't tell us much. They have the advantage of being able to integrate with their own code, whereas we're trying to work alongside their code. In general, it works for most users, but hiccups can always arise.

For the avatar itself, we have to play some games. For all sites JFBConnect has worked with using EasySocial so far, the avatar is not required. Few sites actually require that an avatar is uploaded during registration, and it's not the default of EasySocial, so that's what we expect. During the registration flow, if you have "Hide imported fields" enabled, we simply pre-fill those fields and use some CSS to actually hide the form field from the user. For the avatar, EasySocial has no way for us to pre-load the avatar (we've asked), so we use CSS to hide that field and then import it after the user has registered. In your case though, since that field is required, EasySocial's validation is still throwing an error because no image has been uploaded.

There's really not much we can do about that now other than recommend:
1) You don't hide imported fields so that the user can see and fill out any fields, including avatar
2) Don't mark avatar as required

Now, for the 'random avatar being imported', that's strange, and not something we've heard of. My best/only guess is that while you're testing, you're clicking register a few times, starting the flow, navigating away, clicking register again and restarting multiple times. In that case, due to how we import the avatar, it may be possible that one of the avatars from any of the social networks you tried to login with is used. However, it shouldn't be a completely unknown avatar to you. That would be very odd behavior that I wouldn't have an immediate response too.

If you're testing, please clear your browser cache and try from scratch to see what happens.

Thanks,
Alex

Can you go to the JFBConnect -> Usermap area and see if a row has been added for the user that you registered with? That table shows the 'mappings' between a social network account and the Joomla account that it is connected to on your site. Knowing if that link is (or isn't) being created, as well as if it's somehow tied to the wrong Facebook or Joomla account, will help narrow things down further.

Another *test* would be to enable the Automatic Registration feature of JFBConnect to see if that works. If so, it means it's something with the flow through EasySocial. It's possible they've made a change in that flow that we need to update for or that there's some additional plugin/feature that you have enabled in/for EasySocial that we haven't tested with.

We have many users with JFBConnect and EasySocial working well, so I'm not sure what's going on here. Please let us know what's in the usermap listing and how automatic registration works for you and we'll gladly help however we can.

Thanks,
Alex