Thank you for the update and the link to the feature request. In our case, we have no required CB fields beyond the basic Joomla user fields. All our additional CB fields are optional. I respect that for sites where that is not the case, it becomes a real issue for a Joomla->CB synch plugin. For whatever it may be worth, our opinion is that probably the best approach is to create the basic CB user entry and let CB enforce the required field constraints if the user ever edits their profile. We saw this under CB 1.9.x with a different 3rd party extension that would add Joomla users with only a single name and we had CB set to first/last. The user would still get synched to CB, but when you edited the person's profile, CB required them to enter a distinct first and last name.

So here is a use-case: With rsjoomla's ticketing system we could require someone be a registered user (registering through CB) before they can submit a support ticket, but we choose not to. RSTickets was chosen because tickets can be submitted by email. When someone send in a ticket by email, a Joomla account is created for them by the ticket extension so they can login (if they ever want to) and check on the status of their support ticket. This is a pretty common support model. In our case, pretty much all a registered user can do is update their profile and check their support history. We also use CB Query to display a customer's license keys in their CB profile for easy access.

I do understand that CB's main target audience is social sites - sites where membership in a community of some sort is a key factor of the web site. So our use case may represent a minority.

We don't do manual user approvals. There is no forums for someone to spam. Or really any thing else where a logged in user can cause issues. The use of CB is really just for CB's ability to allow extra fields associated with a profile, which allows us to keep additional information for customers of our software. I'll certain re-raise the issue with RSJoomla as well that a plugin to the ticketing tools to integrate with CB would be very helpful.

I started the discussion on their forum as well at www.rsjoomla.com/forum/52-rsticketspro/27372-community-builder-integration.html#34929