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You don't really need CiviUser unless you want to do a membership or group check. The core Joomla user component will work fine.

Re: linking records -- there are two basic scenarios.

If a user is created in Joomla, an attempt to match with an existing Civi record or create a new one is triggered when the logged in user visits a Civi page. Civi does a pretty good job with that, but it's not perfect.

Alternately, you could create a Civi profile that includes the ability to let the user create a Joomla user account. That's a 'stronger' way to make sure your J users and C records are correctly connected.

Alternately, you could create a Civi profile that includes the ability to let the user create a Joomla user account. That's a 'stronger' way to make sure your J users and C records are correctly connected.

I'm trying to set my website to permit the registration through CiviCRM:

- I created the profile.
- I followed this

   * Login to Administrator if not already logged in.
    * Click Menus on top navigation bar and select the menu you want to add the Profile link(s) to (for example - Main Menu).
    * Click New icon (top right).
    * Click CiviCRM link from the Internal Link list.
    * Click one of the options under CiviCRM Profile (depending on whether you are creating a link for Create, Edit, Search or View profiles).
    * Enter a Title for the menu item under Menu Item Details.
    * Modify other details in the left pane (Parent Item, Access Level, Published) based on your requirements for this menu item.
          o Profile-View and Profile-Edit require "Registered" as the Access Level. Users need to have an account and be logged in to the front-end in order for CiviCRM to retrieve their own contact information for viewing or editing in a Profile.
    * In the Parameters-Basic section (upper right):
          o Select the title of the CiviCRM Profile you want to expose with this front-end menu item from the "Select a Profile" drop-down.
          o If you don't see any CiviCRM Profiles listed in the dropdown - review the Trouble-shooting tip below for sites with CiviCRM and Joomla in separate databases.
    * Repeat these steps as needed to add additional Profile menu items.

- I can fill in the form but after sending I have this error (see the attachment):
DB Error: No such field

I checked into Joomla Admin and I see that there is the user and there is the user also into CiviCRM but without information.

Can someone help me?
thanks

but I created a profile in Civi CRM.
I linked this profile to registration form.

Now I tried again... after filling in the form I have another error:
DB Error: already exists

ps. No user is into Joomla o Civi CRM