Hi - I'm wondering how best to explicitly set the Profile Type at registration.  I have 3 different profile types A, B and C.  I would like to set the new user's profile type to the correct one by using a URL variable.

Example: for a new user registering as an A type, the url could be "http//:www.mydomain.com/register?ptype=A"

Is this possible? and if not, how could I set the profile type correctly?  NOTE: I do not want the user to be able to set/change their profile type.. 

Thanks in advance...

@TomG currently it is not possible. If there are profile types, there will be a choice. With some custom code it should not be that hard, but that requires you to program.

Hi Jeroen,

I'm sorry if this has been addressed before - I am looking into integrating the profile manager with elgg's search functionality. I have read that your profile manager handles searching of metadata but I just need a little guidance to get started.

Any help would be really appreciated.

@tony the search feature was part of the profile manager. User search will be moved to a seperate search plugin.

Hi,
correct me if i'm wrong but i understand there is currently no plugin (for 1.8) that permits to have customed fields with radio buttons and select lists on search and registration pages
Tks
Ludovic

@ludovic you can configure the profile fields to show up on the registration page. Not on the search page.

@Jeroen Thanks. So it means all my effort to migrate to 1.8 are useless :-(
(till the new search plugin is released)

Did "simple search" and "advanced search" go away on 1.8?

@jesus524 you probably installed incorrectly

@stuartsloan yes, it is being moved into a new search plugin (not yet available)

@Jeroen thanks!  Is there an ETA on that search plugin?  Is there anything I can do to help?

Hi @Jeroen

Could you please briefly explain some use case of profile type and categories, I really want to use this great plugin. But I got nowhere to understand how to use profile types and categories.

Thanks in abvance!

how do i remove fields from registration page? I see its in the profile manager mod but I am so new to this I have no idea what I am doing most of the  time

Hiya

I'm having a problem that when I select to make a user profile field non-editable by the user, there is absolutely no way to change it even as an admin. Is this right? It would seem right to me that users can't edit the field, and are told so, but admins can.

Thanks

Nick

Very nice work ;-) I recommend it !

I have one suggestion : it could be useful to move some code from actions to library to be able to create new fields directly in the code instead of via the user interface. And then, in new.php, just call the function from the library with right parameters. In fact, generally, it is always useful to split processing and UI, I think.

For example, I would like to use your plugin to add some fields, but some are a dropdown list where data are in some PHP variables. This could be also useful to manage internationalisation of fields with elgg_echo.

@remo.. snds intrsting, you have more details re: what u mean ? b/c code code is - & still all inside the plugins' scripts.. so.. ?

i have seen that when i enable the option to add entries to the river for member joining events, the entries that are added are empty for unvalidated registrations, so empty spaces appear in the river - in 1.8.8 elgg.

i'm also now seeing, after upgrading a 1.7.8 install - that the 'about me' field is appearing outside of the grouped profile fields.. and is uneditable.. 
i recall this also happened in the previous install and did not occur when i used a fresh 1.8.8 install.

any idea how to resolve that? 

@nick that is by design. Non-editable is intended for fields that are managed in external systems, so it would not make sense that an admin can edit the field. Maybe in a future version i will change this to allowing a selection of who can see/edit a profile field so you can make a field visible for everyone, but only editable by the admin.

@remy improving the "new field" action is on the todo, but thanks for the tip :)

@ura i still need to confirm/test your issues with the 1.8.8 release

@ura the empty events are for users that are not yet validated, so they will fill up when the user is enabled/validated. This should be fixed in Elgg core where list_river_events should only list enabled entities

@Jeroen Dalsem  how to do this,

if(country-this){

then this } ??

@lianglee probably something like:

if(elgg_get_page_owner_entity()->country == "this-country"){
  // do country specific stuff
}

@Jeroen Dalsem country is a field which is set by profile manager plugin..

@Jeroen - ok, thanks for the update. i'll log a ticket in trac.

i also just saw that the group name field is being duplicated in the group edit page for me. 

It it possible to show only one group of profile types, like when I´m clicking on "New", "Popular" or "Online"?