I've found a bug where it seems impossible to keep a user a disapproved. I have CB set that the admin must approve all new accounts. So a user registers, and in the backend, the "Approved" column is marked as "pending approval". If I go in and edit their account, and set the "Approve User" dropdown to "No", the user is still marked as pending approval.

Clicking on the icon in the Approved column can also cycle the user through approved and disapproved (rejected). This cycles between the green checkmark, and the red x. If I click the icon, I can set the user as disapproved. However if I go in and edit that user's profile, and save, leaving the Approve User dropdown as-is at "No", after saving the user they are back to being "pending approval" again.

This would seem to be a bug to me, and seems to be impossible to set the user to Disapproved when you're editing their profile. It also seems that the "Approve User" dropdown needs a third option to reflect the "pending approval" state in the database. It would appear that pending approval and disapproved are being mixed up somehow.

- vince

Post edited by: krileon, at: 2010/04/01 20:31

There are three states in the database of the approved column:

int 1: Approved
int 2: Denied
int 0: Pending approval

If you edit someone's profile and set the "Approve User" dropdown to "No", then the database state goes back to 0, which is back to "pending approval".

Seems like a bug to me. Editing a profile should not return them to "Pending Approval". This implies that you have never dealt with this user account. When in reality, I have.

Thanks for confirming this as a bug. Here's why I think it's somewhat of a priority though:

The only way to mark a user as rejected (currently, with this bug) is to cycle through the icon in the Approved column of the list view (as editing them only leaves them back at Pending). However, the order of cycling is Pending->Approved->Denied. Which means if you're attempting to deny someone, they're going to get their Account Approved welcome email as you're cycling on your way to the Denied state.

Just pointing that out. Again, thanks for confirming.

Jumping into that thread as my other thread got closed:
www.joomlapolis.com/component/option,com_joomlaboard/Itemid,38/func,view/catid,112/id,130768/#130768

From what krileon has posted, the confirmed bug is that a once rejected user will go back to pending state when he gets edited.

However this is not the bug I have reported. I reported the bad workflow architecture, which requires a user to be approved before he can be disapprove. Exactly what vcardillo wrote below.

So I hope these 2 different issues will get looked after seperately.