Problem with JFBC password generation and ES registration
By Amy Phillips on Thursday, 18 February 2016
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Hello all,

I would like to NOT require the user to set a password during ES registration. Since ES would not let me create a profile type without the password field, I had set its visibility to "hidden" during registration.

My HOPE was that JFBC's "generate random password" would work and therefore make it unnecessary to expose the password field to the user. However, at the end of registration (with the password field hidden), automatic login did not work and I saw an error on the fronted, "Password cannot be empty" (or something like that.)

So, question: is it possible to NOT have the user create a password at all, and rely on JFBC to do it for the user? Or is this not possible?

Thanks!
Hey Amy,

Unfortunately it is not possible currently to not set a password. How does JFBC registration workflow works currently? Does it redirect to EasySocial's profile selection upon hitting the login with FB button?
Mark
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Thursday, 18 February 2016 12:11
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It does, thank goodness! You can try it here: http://getsitt.com/login It might be useful for y'all to see the flow.

Yes, one REALLY nice thing about JFBC is that it auto-generates a password so that users logging in with social don't have to deal with that (since part of the obvious value in signing in with social is not having to remember another password.) So it's a bit confusing for ES to require it at registration.

So, something to add to the feature request!

Can you think of a way of I might hack it? I looked for the file that has the password fields but for the life of me couldn't find it. I was thinking I could hardcode a value in there somehow... set the field to type=hidden...

Any ideas, let me know! And thanks for the reply.
Amy Phillips
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Thursday, 18 February 2016 13:38
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Hey Amy,

You might want to check the custom field's file in /media/com_easysocial/fields/user/joomla_password.php
Mark
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Thursday, 18 February 2016 13:39
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