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Hello everyone,

I have used Chronoforms to provide CB registration. It perfectly works with CB registration and moderation now. I have configured it to work with CB's excellent feature of moderating a user registration request. Now, I am having a problem with fireboard forum integration with CF.

Problem occurs when I try to access the Fireboard forums after logging into the site. The forum is configured to be accessible to Registered users only. So, when I login, I was supposed to get into forums. But it gives me You do not have access to this Forum! message. Tried to figure out in the database as well as in the PHP codes.

I searched for debugging it in the view.php under components/com_fireboard/template/default and fb_auth.php under components/com_fireboard/sources directory but no help.

A pointer or a tip to do the desired task will be highly appreciated.

Thanks
Aftab

Hi Aftab,

But Chronoforms manages only the registration, so as long as user is registered on the site and can login to Joomla then this is a fireboard issue, try this, get a user registered using CB and not CF, try logging in with this one at the forum, if it works then register another user using CF and if it doesn't work then try checking all CB/FB tables for differences between those 2 users ?

Cheers

Max

Hi aftab,

This error message is about specific Forum access and is triggered by fb_auth.php You'd need to check through this file (it's only small) with some debugging code to find exactly where the failure is.

It might be that the user isn't being assigned to a valid group.

Bob

Thanks for the Tip. I will go through and get back to you with results

Aftab

Yes, I figured it out. This has nothing to do with CF. Actually the problem is here:

I want that no visitor can visit or see the forums (and its categories). Once they register, they can view the forums and post replies. A registered user can view the forums but cannot write since I have set to All Registered access.

But it is not actually working in FB.

Sorry Max and GH. If you can help me in this issue, I would highly appreciate.

Happy CFing
Aftab

Hi aftab,

Sorry, I'm lost now. Are your users not being added to the Registered Group?

Bob

Hi Bob,

Well they are by default set to registered. Problem was with FB and Joomla. FB did not update their aro group variables which caused the Registered users not being able to view (or post) in the forums.

I made the forums open only to registered users who can get access to. A user needs to login to view forums but all forums are made public. I solved it that way. By the way, Bob, can you please tell me how you configured this (CF) forum to show Ascending for posts? The dafult for my site is Descending. How can I change it?

Aftab

Hi aftab,

Ahh, so it was FB not updating promptly, goo to know.

I don't know if you can set the default - I just had a quick look and couldn't see a setting. I think it's a personal user setting.

Bob

Thanks for the Tip. I am using CF to use for profiling bypassing FB and CB profilers.

Aftab