Difference between revisions of "Custom Profile Fields"

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The page with all of the '''Custom Profile Fields''' in the site will show up.<br/>
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The page with all of the '''Custom Profile Fields''' in the site will appear.<br/>
  
 
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Revision as of 08:05, 8 March 2013

Overview

Custom Profile Fields allow the site Administrator to configure any combination of custom information fields that will be shown in the user profiles.

Accessing the Field Configuration

From the Components dropdown menu at the site Backend, select JomSocial.
Then, select Custom Profiles.

Jsconfigcustomprofiles.png

The page with all of the Custom Profile Fields in the site will appear.

Customprofilefieldsdefault.png

Note: During the initial installation, JomSocial adds the default custom profile fields, as shown on the image above. You are not limited to those fields. You can delete them, change them, or even add your own.

Manipulating with Fields

Available field types

  • Textbox - Creates the textbox field
  • Textarea - Makes the textarea field
  • Select - Allows you to create dropdown list of options, where only one of the available options can be selected
  • Select List - Same as Select field but not in dropdown. The list is expanded by default
  • Multiple Select - Expanded list of options, where more then one value can be selected by holding the CTRL button
  • Radio Buttons - Creates the list of radio buttons. Only one of the available options can be selected
  • Checkbox - Cretes the list of checkboxes
  • Country - Makes a dropdown of all the countries available for selection
  • Gender - A gender field simply allows users to select their gender
  • Email - Cloacked email field
  • Time - Time field craetes the dropdowns of HH MM SS
  • Date - Creates the date field
  • URL - Allows creation of the weblink field
  • Label - Creates the label field
  • Birthdate - Allows creation of birthdate field

Available options

  • Name - Name of the field (please, see this page if you want to make fields multilingual
  • Field Code - An unique field code - can be later used in API
  • Type - Type of the field
  • Published - Enables the individual profile field.
  • Searchable - If enabled, the field will be searchable in advanced search list
  • Visible - If enabled, field will be visible on users profile page
  • Required - Makes field required. Profile can not be saved or created if the field with Required tag is not properly populated.
  • Registration - Field is available on registratio page