Content created prior to registering could not be automatically submitted

[Andy.N]

Affected version

2.2.16

I have several of these happened without knowing what's going on.
Users will create a post, post a review and then register.
I will then see these in the moderator queue.
I approved it and then nothing happened. The user got this alert.
Can we manually approve the content they created.
Where do I find this content?

 

[Andy.N]

I have this happen today. Users posting a review of a resource while registering. I approved the registration but the review was not submitted and there is no way to retrieve that review.
This should not happen or is it as designed?

 

[Kirby]

This is unfortunately working as designed, but this design IMHO leads to really bad UX when there are validation errors:
Before registration the content is not fully validated.

So for example if you have configured a forum to require at least 2 tags and a guest tries to create a thread without entering any tags he will still be able to submit the form and complete the registration process.

After registration the user account may show up in the approval queue (if flagged for spam or if manual user approval is configured) including the submitted pre reg content.

However, when approving the user the original input is validated, the validation fails (due to the missing tags), the content is not created (the pre reg action data just gets deleted) and the user receives an alert as shown in the screenshot.

IMHO this should really be adressed somehow.