Steven Zahm@ Kristy
Actually no shortcode options are necessary as everything can be configured in the settings.
Since you want only registered users to submit and maintain their entry, you should disable the “Submit New Entry” action link and only have the “Add My Directory Entry” action link active.
That is noted in the doc for Form, perhaps this is not clear. Writing docs in not exactly my strong suit. If you have any suggestion on how to improve that not in the Form doc, I’ll definitely take the suggestions!
For what you are wanting, you only need to enable the action links covered in the docs for Link.
The only reason you would want both activate, and some users do, is so unregistered users can still submit entries to the directory.
As for user registration, that is not something that is built into Connections. You could add a link to the core WordPress registration page or you could use one of the many freely available plugins which offer a more configurable user registration process. Many of these user registration plugins offer a feature to auto login and redirect the user on a successful registration. You can take advantage of such a feature to redirect the user to the directory submission page.
If you want, you can use the Login extension to add a login widget to your sidebar. It is quite handy because it also shows the directory actions links (if enabled in the widget settings).
Hope this helps, let me know.