I am using a step by step registration. On the last step, when the person enters a username which is already in use, an error message is placed in the system output area, and the steps go back to the first step.

The error message is "The username '<username>' is already in use."

This is a problem, because people are reporting that they think the data they have entered has been lost. Some click the browser back button, which leads to more problems.

So my question is two parts:

1) Is there a way to improve this, so that the previously viewed tab is opened when there is a PHP validation error.
2) If not, where do I change the text string for the error message, so that I can try to guide users to do the right thing? I have looked in the following places but can't find it:

• /components/com_comprofiler/plugin/language/cbpaidsubscriptions-en-gb
• /components/com_comprofiler/plugin/language/en-gb/language.php
• The Joomla language override in the Joomla admin (Extensions->Language Manager->Overrides->New)

Thanks very much for any help

OK, thank you