I’m setting up a BP installation and using the AD Integration plugin in order to auto-create WordPress accounts when people log in with existing Active Directory credentials. While the AD Integratration plug-in autofills in the new user’s login name, First Name and Last Name, these fields don’t carry into the user’s Buddypress profile.

Is there any way to do this? Even better, is there any way to automatically import other info that can be retrieved via AD authentication (title, phone number, etc.)?

[@cnorris23 Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

That would be something to ask the authors of the AD Integration plugin, but I would suspect that you would need to use a plugin provided hook, and the write you’re own custom function to do this.

[@chrisjscott Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

I figured it’d be a BP thing, as the AD Integration plug-in is BP-agnostic and it works correctly w/ WordPress (as proven by the fact that the user accounts are populated).

In light of that, maybe I should rephrase the question to ask if there’s a way that BP could read more than shortname from the WordPress user account when creating the account profile.

[@cnorris23 Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

It’s still the same answer. There is a way, but it would take code. You would need to use hooks from the AD Intergration plugin and hooks/functions from BP to handle this. The reason I said talk to the plugin author is because you might be able to request the the plugin author adds this as a feature.

[@chrisjscott Participant 13 years, 8 months ago]

Got it – thanks for the direction.