A user account for guest bookings
For guest bookings the plugin can create a Joomla user account automatically and link it to the booking. The participant can log in later and see their bookings in the frontend — without you having to create the account by hand.
The option
In the plugin options, create a user account for guest bookings controls the behaviour:
| As configured in DPCalendar | Default — the DPCalendar setting registration of the booking system applies. |
| Yes | An account is always created for backend guest bookings, regardless of the DPCalendar setting. |
| No | No account is ever created. |
When an account is created
An account is only created when all conditions are met:
- The booking has the status active.
- There is no account yet for the email address. (If there is one, the booking stays a guest booking — nothing is linked silently.)
- The backend user doing this is allowed to create users in Joomla (permission of the user manager). Without that permission the booking is saved normally and a warning is shown.
The account receives the guest's full name, the email address as the username, a random password with a forced password change, and the default user group configured in Joomla.
With or without sending email
- Send emails = yes: Joomla sends the usual registration email. Depending on the settings of the Joomla user manager it contains an activation link.
- Send emails = no: the account is created silently — active, but without any email. The participant gets access later via forgot password. A notice in the backend confirms the silent account creation.
So the account creation does not fail just because sending email is switched off — a deliberate difference from Joomla's standard behaviour, which discards accounts when sending the email fails.
Privacy
Only create accounts when the participant agrees — because they asked for access on the phone, for instance. No account is required for merely recording a booking; the option can be set to no at any time.
Applies to version 1.0.7.