Hey Michael,

The problem here is because you only have 1 menu to EasySocial and it is called "Community". However, this menu is set with the permissions of "Registered" only.

There is 2 ways to fix this:

1. Set the "Community" menu as "Public"

2. Create a hidden menu. Then, create a menu item in this hidden menu which links to the registration layout.

I would strongly suggest you to go with #1 because this would serve as a "teaser" for guests on your site

P/S: If this is a new site, why don't jump to 3.x directly? Joomla 2.5 is already going to be obsolete soon.

By the way, please remember to assign your domain to your license to obtain for support in the future. You can do so by accessing your license area at http://stackideas.com/dashboard

Mark:
I should have thought of that. What I am trying to do is have the EasySocial portion of the site totally private from the public and only available to registered users. To accomplish this can I follow your option 2 and still have all the privileges? I want the users to know that everything they share and do will be behind away from the general public.
Michael Leavitt - Orem, Utah

Mark:
On your question of Joomla 3 verses 2.5, I am using 2.5 because I have GoDaddy as my host provider. Their default Joomla installation is 2.5 and it makes it so easy to setup. I have never put a 3.0 site on their server and I am sticking in my comfort zone. There are many things I am cutting edge progressive about, but there are other things I just don't want to bleed over. Now that 3.0 is so established I should give it a try.
Michael Leavitt - Orem, Utah

Hey Michael,

Yes, that is correct You can follow option 2 but you also need to create additional hidden menus for the rest of the views so that they would still be public

If I were you, I would forego Godaddy and go with something else I got scammed by Godaddy twice and never will I go back to them

P/S: Try http://stackideas.com/inmotion-webhosting

There is maybe a third option I had thought of months ago when I started my website because I wanted to reach the same objective of having all hidden for guests.

Create an article without any content but any title
Make a new menu item called 'community' for guests only and link it to the article created before and switch off anything like showing title, author and so on
Make the EasySocial Quick Registration module show up on that menu item and at top position of that site, at least above the article
Make another menu item 'community' for registered only
If you like add a login module to the menu item

On this way guests will see the registration and registered users will get into EasySocial.

Yeap this could work as well Joomla, infinite possibilities if you know your way around

Hi Michael, Sabih and Mark,

Glad I found this thread!

On my site there are some public areas and the rest only available to club members.

New club members are only allowed if invited by other already registered members using the "Invite Friends" link.

For the already registered club members, there is a page for login and that works great.

My problem comes from registering new club members.

I have on EasySocial general settings, the "Enable lockdown mode" and "Allow registrations on lockdown mode" are both set to yes. This means "only users with an account will be allowed to access the system" and "users will still be able to access the registration area".

My idea was that, from the link EasySocial sends on the invite email, as the link has an identifier at the end (?invite=xxx), the system would be able to understand that this is an invited member with an invitation number and would, on the login page, allow the new member to register without trying to log it in first.

The fact that the system knows the invite identifier id + user email would further allow the new user to register filling all the fields by itself or, if the email address is the same, import all data from, for instance, Facebook.

Any hints / tips on how, on the login page, to show only the login form except for the links with an invite id number where it would show login and / or registration forms?

Thanks in advance

Hi Michael, Sabih and Mark,

Never mind my post, apparently got it working...!

Thanks anyway

Hey Mario,

I would be curious about how you have solved this, because it is a great thing to have.

Hi Sabih,

Believe or not, now that I found it, that's **** simple.

First of all keep "Enable lockdown mode" and "Allow registrations on lockdown mode" set to yes (this is done in General Settings -> General -> Lockdown tab).

I will try to explain this as clear as possible. I have a login page / screen for the private area created directly from a menu item called community (comunidade in Portuguese) (see my site here http://lifesbest.pt/pt/comunidade). This page is public. I was keeping the EasySocial dashboard page only allowed to registered users. That was the mistake...! Keep it public too. When a user clicks the community menu link, its taken to the login page and does not get any further unless it logs in (suppose that's what lockdown mode is about). When a user receives an invitation email, there is a link to the register page on the site that is public and the user can register ok.

The menu item is created as on the pic attached.

Not sure if this works every time but the fact is, so far, all my testing went well.

Hope this helps you & good luck with your social network!

Mário T. Silva

Hey Mario,

thank you very much for sharing this. Sounds great.

Hope this helps you & good luck with your social network!

Thank you and same for you!

Hey Mario,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply,

By the way, glad to heard your issue resolved.

As a gentle reminder, kindly start a new thread if you have any other issue in the future so it will be easier for us to manage your inquiry. I will lock and mark this thread as resolved.