Force a user to register or login

Hello, I have a form, that is only accessable for registered users. So if a not registered (or logged) in user wants to access the form, I get the message: "You are not permitted to view this content." Is it possible to change this to something like "You have to be logged in to access this content." in connection with to links like: "Login" and "Register"?

Thank you for your help!

Hi,

I'm sorry, that I was not able to answer your request sooner.

At the moment I have no idea how to do this easily. visForms uses the Joomla! default language tag JERROR_ALERTNOAUTHOR in order to show this text. So if you would use the language manager to change the text (which would basically be possible) this would change the text not only in visForms but all over your website. So this might not be the result which you would like.

Sadly I have no better knews for you.

Regards,
Aicha

Hi, you will find the file to change this error message in your Joomla main directory » language » en-GB.ini. You can open the File using a editor and in line 129 (Joomla V.3.9.15) is the code you need to update:

JERROR_ALERTNOAUTHOR="You are not authorised to view this resource."

simply update this line, but like Aicha allready sayed, it will change as well the standard joomla error message for this. Anyway, if you change it to your suggested phrase "You have to be logged in to access this content." it should be not a problem, because everybody will understand this as well.

Thank you!