Joomla: Working with Community Builder

From Gruff Goat Wiki

What is Community Builder?

• A Joomla component and 3 collaborating core modules
• An environment for producing and maintaining online communities on Joomla driven sites
• A system that provides user profile capabilities for Joomla sites
• A different registration/login process for Joomla (supports 4 different workflows)
• An environment that enables Mambo site administrators to create user profiles that capture extra information from users (with the creation of new fields) that can be presented and organized in tabs (again defined by the administrator)
• A framework for other Joomla components to integrate with user profiles

The information on this site is neither complete nor comprehensive but created to meet task-oriented procedures. For full information about Community Builder, please visit Joomlapolis.

Notes

• Menu item selections are indicated by the convention, Menu > Submenu > Item.
• Do NOT use the standard Joomla User Manager. Instead use the Community Builder User Management. This is found at Components > Community Builder > User Management.

Approve a New User Account

New user approval is a selectable configuration item. When selected, Administrators are notified when a new user has registered and an Administrator must approve the account before it becomes active.

1. Login to the Joomla Administrator
2. Open the Community Builder User Management at Components > Community Builder > User Management
3. Find the new user from the list of users.
   1. Click on the user's name to view more details about their registration. This is the Edit User page.
   • • From Edit User, you may unblock and approve the user
     • Click Save
   1. OR Click the pending icon in the approved column of the user's row.
   • • This unblocks and approves the user without reviewing their registration