Joomla account creation fields not appearing on profile forms

Question

I have exactly the problem listed in this forum post:

https://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=11260.0

I'm not able to create any Joomla user via a CiviCRM profile form, because the Joomla user registration fields do not appear on the profile.

• the "Allow User Registration" option in User Manager is set to "yes"
• I've tried setting profiles to both "Give option" and "Require" Joomla account creation
• I've tried custom and simple out-of-the-box profiles
• Permissions all seem to be correct (anonymous users are allowed to create profiles, see all custom data fields, etc.)

I do also have Community Builder installed, but as far as I could discover that shouldn't cause any problems with the fields appearing.

Any ideas what else to check, or how to troubleshoot this further?

Answer 1

Community builder has a plugin called Community Builder System plugin that can be set to redirect or rewrite Joomla user component URLs. Perhaps this interferes and as a result keeps the field set of user registration URLs inaccessible and so out of view in the profile form.

I thank you for your check-list of steps to get the account creation fields to show themselves. It rescued me when I did not know how and why they kept not appearing in a new profile I was trying to get working. So: well formulated question that answered me in my quest.