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@gregfielding are you not wanting to use dropdown select for any reason? instead of using checkboxes/radio? Can you have more than one role? If you only need one role per user, why not use dropdown xprofile field and make it […]

yet another way to do it, i think…

`loggedin_user->id;
$type_member = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Real Estate Industry Professional’, $user_id );?>

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yea there’s prolly an easier way to go about it. I’ve just copied/pasted/refreshed different combinations til something worked. 🙂 I look forward to seeing something simple to use for stuff like this. hehe

don’t know what I just did but this seems to work…
loggedin_user->id) == 'Yes') : ?>
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Another sidebar

and you want this […]

I couldn’t figure out how to display something else…

I guess you could create different functions for each type of field

`loggedin_user->id)) : ?>
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loggedin_user->id)) […]

loggedin_user->id)) : ?>
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This works though right.

in the function, where color = your main field heading, I’ve used a dropdown. and Red is one of the drop down items to select from.

I don’t know if it works the same if the field was just a text field. I imagine so.

@gregfielding I forgot where I found this (maybe bp-tricks)

put this in your bp-custom

`//CHECK IF THE ACCT IS CERTAIN ACCT TYPE

function My_Function ($user_id) {
global $bp;
$type_member = xprofile_get_field_data( […]

@gregfielding have you considered using p2 on a community blog where members can submit those community updates you need? In a sense it could serve as an activity stream for posts. and think of all you could do with wp posts that you can’t with activity stream entries.

thanks @hnla @pcwriter I’ll look into both of these suggestions. I’ve made the round over to wp but since the majority if not all are BP plugins I thought I’d put it out there here. I’m having a hard time seeing why some of these BP plugins need to be network activated at all.

will do. been admiring your updated design!

* when I first tried updating the “what’s happening…” status, the activity didn’t immediately appear. i had to refresh the page.

@djpaul cool thanks…

it is a little slow though…how can that be improved.

anywhere we can see this awesomeness in action? like modemlooper said, and I suggested also months back to see if that groups-css plugin could be done to work with profiles. that would be A-OK.

do you have a buddypress ready theme? BP will not work automatically for all themes. You’ll need a Buddypress ready theme and/or use the BP Template Pack plugin. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-template-pack/