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There are a few possible bugs - these are all in a Joomla installation and many of them may relate to Joomla-specific issues (I'm testing on the default template, more or less). I don't think that there is a sandbox I can test Joomla issues in 3.2b3 on to verify that its not just my (odd) system, so I'd be interested to know if anyone else sees them/they're known and I didn't see them on the tracker.

1. When creating a new Joomla menu item for an event, the dropdown doesn't list newly created events (but does list some old v3.0 ones). It also lists two blanks, which appear to be templates.

2. The quick search is alternately grey (readable) and white (unreadable until you hover over it). It also seems (sometimes) to search as you're typing (correctly) but then as you reach for your mouse to click on one of the contacts skip back to a full list as if you hadn't entered any data.

3. CiviMember: when renewing a membership, the "Send Confirmation Receipt" bit appears to have fallen off the green background (or doesn't have the right container?) and is just left aligned (under the menu) on the white background and the save etc buttons below it are also misaligned.

4. (Front end only) The date picker (for e.g. Date of Birth fields) doesn't work in profiles used in the frontend. In the backend it works fine.

5. If a profile's settings state that signing up for a Joomla account is optional/compulsory it doesn't appear to have any effect. Nothing is displayed (but I couldn't get this to work in 3.1 either, so may not be a 3.2beta issue, specifically?)

6. (v. minor layout bug?) Configure>>Global Settings>>Site Preferences : the top and bottom sets of save/cancel buttons are together at the top with the page below it.

Ed,

1) Can you apply this patch and see if it fixes things?
http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-4404

It appears to just mess up the page (Joomla template vanishes and text is a mess on a white background and URL reads "http://www.<domain>.org.uk/administrator/index.php?option=com_menus&task=edit&type=component&url[option]=com_civicrm&url[view]=Events&url[layout]=register&menutype=clubandgeneral") - but maybe I've just put it in the wrong place: I've created the /elements folder under /components/com_civicrm and the xml replaces two files of the same name in the views/Events/tmpl folder? The drop down box for listing events can't be seen so I don't know if it works on the underlying issue.

I'll look at this again tomorrow with a clearer head.

I have modified files in the past to allow profile edit forms to have the user reg fields available because of a similar scenario -- i wanted to send existing contacts an email with token to create a login account. If you need that, let me know and I'll track down the code.

Re: the menu item --
I've seen this crop up several times lately. Civi stores the menu item options in the menu parameters field, which is standard. But when changing from one menu item type to another, some of the old parameter options are retained and can goof things up. Not sure if that's civi's fault, or Joomla's (for not clearing parameters when a menu item type is changed). At some point I'll try to take a look at it.