Profile Types... Difference between 'Published Status' and 'Allow in Registration'
By Andy on Wednesday, 02 December 2015
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Maybe just a little tidy needed on the back-end to explain the difference between these 2 when editing profile types. Currently tool tips make them sound the same:

Published Status: "If a profile type is unpublished, user's would not be able to select the profile type during registration"
Allow in Registration: "If enabled user would be able to select this profile type during registration"

Also just because I know you like everything to be 100% PERFECT, if you keep the 'user's' in that wording, it should just be 'users', so no apostrophe in there.
Hi Andy,

Thanks for the heads up. We will see what we can do regarding on this issue in the future release of easysocial.
Ezrul Fazwan
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Friday, 04 December 2015 11:07
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I love the flexibility this gives though!

For my site I needed to create a menu link for a specific user profile, but not have that shown on the general registration page. I can achieve that by setting that special user profile to PUBLISHED = NO and ALLOW IN REGISTRATION = YES.

So I'm not sure what to suggest for the tooltip explanation, but it's certainly great and much needed functionality so please don't remove one of them thinking it's duplication!

Thanks!
Andy
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Wednesday, 02 December 2015 22:22
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Hi Andy,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply.

I guess you are right. Currently the tooltip does sound almost identical for both unpublished status and allow in registration. Well in fact the function are also quite similar. Perhaps we will try to unify this settings or improve the tooltips description in order to avoid confusion between our easysocial user later in the future.
Ezrul Fazwan
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Thursday, 03 December 2015 16:08
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Thanks Ezrul... Please keep the two options though... there must be some key difference though which is why I've been able to set up my registrations the way I need them to work! (as per my second post on this thread).. I think one setting allows for a profile type to be 'active' but not part of the main public registration front-end (albeit you can if you wish create a direct menu type for it)... Exactly what I needed
Andy
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Thursday, 03 December 2015 20:33
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