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June 6, 2009 at 3:16 am #46833

In reply to: how does user data get added to the user page (not the profile)?

Jeff Sayre
Participant

Dan-

I’m going to make just a few comments now. I’ll look at this in more detail tomorrow.

It look’s like you are using the default themes that come with BuddyPress–bphome and bpmember. Is this correct?

Pardon me if you know all this already but, when a user (one of your students) logs in, a link appears in the upper right corner of the buddybar with a link to their profile page. This link displays either their username or nickname. What is displayed depends on whether or not a nickname has been entered by the user. For all but four of your students, there is no nickname.

Now, when a student clicks this link, it will take them to their profile page. Once there, they can edit their profile. In the default BP install, there is a “Full Name” field in the profile that can be filled in.

WordPress Mu uses this data for the display in the backend–your picture #2. If the “Full Name” field is blank in their profile, then you will only see data in the “Username” and “nickname” fields, with the username used as the nickname. If a user has add anything to the “Full Name” field, then Mu will use that, and if it can, split it automatically into a “First name” and “Last name”.

The fact that 4 students have data in these fields indicates to me that they went to their profile page and clicked “Edit Profile” and then added their full name to the “Full Name” field. It is not a mystery.

Finally, when logged into WPMU’s backend, go to the “BuddyPress” menu group. Once there, click on “General Settings”. You will see a field named “Full Name field name”. Then, click on “Profile Field Setup”. There, you will see all of the currently-setup profile fields that your students can utilize. You can add, edit, or delete fields. You can make certain fields required.

You should spend some time not only in the WPMU’s backend, but also in the members’ area of BuddyPress to see how all of this works.

I hope this helps.

June 2, 2009 at 6:32 pm #46592

In reply to: links in profile text areas pointing to wrong place

Roger Coathup
Participant

@Burt and Jeff: thanks for your help…

… I’ve found the solution to this one:

I was using the switch_to_blog() function to retrieve posts to display in a header bar, and had neglected to call restore_current_blog() at the end.

It was somewhat unexpected that this would cause links in profile fields to be amended. Is there any reference manual for the bp functions? Or anything planned?

June 2, 2009 at 8:32 am #46546

In reply to: Profile Edit not working

deanes02
Participant

The site is http://ma.nutwork.com.au/

I have a group called – Basic Information with two fields “Name” and “Date of Birth”. Theres a slight div problem in Firefox so if you check it out in IE that would be best. Anyway the error still comes up when you click on Edit Profile, but you can still click on the Basic Information link and enter in your details.

It is the initial error when you click on “Edit Profile” that I am trying to solve.

Thanks for your input so far!

June 2, 2009 at 6:42 am #46540

In reply to: Profile Edit not working

Burt Adsit
Participant

You’ll get that error message from bp-xprofile.php if you have a group of profile fields defined but no fields in the group.

May 27, 2009 at 7:29 pm #46179

In reply to: Adding member detail sections

aran
Participant

Okay, I can see after installing it that admin has the ability to add user fields – and very neatly done it is too.

And it seems as though the search facility includes what’s put in those fields – but I don’t think that’s immediately obvious.

It would be great if there was an ‘advanced’ search option that would specifically allow you to look for details profile field by profile field.

So where you can add dropdown lists in profiles (that is very clever indeed, great work), you would be able to select from those same dropdown lists in Search.

Hope this strikes someone as a good idea…

May 27, 2009 at 7:24 pm #46177

In reply to: Changing Profile Field Order

John James Jacoby
Keymaster

Fields show up in the order they were created. By September… I would say 50% right now? There’s a few different things on the roadmap for what comes next, and you can always vote on what you think you’d like to see also.

The first blog visible on the buddypress.org homepage will link you to where you can vote for what you’d like to see come sooner or later. The votes will determine the path, so make sure to get involved.

May 27, 2009 at 5:26 pm #46173

In reply to: Changing Profile Field Order

peterverkooijen
Participant

Is there a workaround? It’s pretty essential to have a registration form that makes sense to potential new members.

What is the best way to approach this now? Will the fields show up in the order they are created? Or backwards?

What are the chances that this issue will be solved before September?

May 26, 2009 at 9:02 am #46088

In reply to: Modifying Site Admin Mail

Burt Adsit
Participant

What are you trying to get from the profile fields? The new user info? All that filter gives you is the text of the message that it’s gonna send out. The user login name is embedded in there but that’s about the only way to get at it. You’d have to parse the text of the msg to get it out.

May 24, 2009 at 6:47 pm #45988

In reply to: Add fields to wp_users

Greg
Participant

I have related questions about the relationship between the WP tables and the BP tables, so I’d like to make sure that I understand the responses above.

I know that BP maintains user profile information separately from “wp_usermeta” (in “wp_bp_xprofile_data”, to be specific). BP provides functionality for modifying this information, but no way for putting “wp_usermeta” fields into the “edit profile” form.

So I think the answer to Peter’s question is that without *major* customization:

1. You have to be happy with user data being stored in a few different places

2. All user editable info must be in the tables created by BP

Is this correct?

BTW, what does the “Disable BuddyPress to WordPress profile syncing?” option do under BP General Settings in the admin page? Does this only apply to the username field?

May 24, 2009 at 8:09 am #45957

In reply to: Links in the profile text areas

Burt Adsit
Participant

Some people don’t find that feature terribly useful, yet others seem to like it but want to limit it to certain fields. It’s subjective. No it’s not a bug for bp to be linking to search that way. bp has no way of knowing what is relevent.

May 22, 2009 at 8:09 pm #45897

In reply to: Plugin automatically joins members to groups based on profile fields

Jeff Sayre
Participant

Westpointer-

This sounds like an interesting plugin. Thanks for your contribution!

Please consider submitting it to the WordPress plugin repository, tagged BuddyPress, when you feel it is ready to go. I’m sure many people will find this useful.

I will be interested in using this plugin myself on a new site I’ll be developing in about 2 months.

May 22, 2009 at 7:39 pm #45892

In reply to: Force users to complete new mandatory profile fields?

westpointer
Participant

hit or miss proposition

I find it’s much more of a “miss” proposition. I may have to wipe up a little plugin for this!

May 22, 2009 at 6:27 pm #45889

In reply to: Duplicating the Wire, adding fields

paperrobot
Participant

I think if you look at how many people (including myself) look at a BP site, it actually does seem reasonable to assume that people would conform to the questions and care about the answers. As I see it, rolling your own facebook is nice, but probably not entirely practical or necessary — once a true alternative pops up, there’s usually a standard alternative for a while until the next comes along.

Personally, I feel BP is wonderful for smaller niche communities where that structured social interaction is, in many ways, the selling point. A music site that asks “what are you listening to right now?” a cooking site that asks “what are you cooking right now?” etc. Connecting people along that shared niche interest, I think, provides value.

In some ways, BP already supports this by giving admins the option. I’m thinking specifically with respect to the profile options you have with categories and questions for users. “What’s your favorite song?” or “What’s your favorite food?” would be totally logical there, and I’d love to see (and plan to try to implement one way or another) the same thing for status.

It would be amazing to see it built in for status updates when that rolls out (which I’m hoping is still this summer). The ability to add fields, mark their importance, and even customize the way they render in search results and things would be very, very nice. Sort of like how you template a WP entry and can customize how it displays in various places. I realize all of that is much harder than a simple text area and pulling the most recent data out of the db, but it would add a lot in terms of flexibility for niche networks.

Thanks for the guidance on programming. I’ll figure it out somehow.

(I actually thought wire v. status was semantics too at first, but wire is more like facebook’s wall, where people can post and conversations can be two-way. Status is more personal for users, something larger and untouchable by others.)

May 22, 2009 at 5:24 pm #45887

In reply to: Force users to complete new mandatory profile fields?

Jeff Sayre
Participant

Boy, other than coding a special function that checks to see is a user has filled in all required profile fields upon log in, I’m not sure at this point. What does happen in this scenario though is that the next time a user edits their profile data, they will not be able to save any changes unless they fill in the required fields.

You could ask them to update their profile data, but that is always a hit or miss proposition.

May 22, 2009 at 3:25 am #45838

In reply to: no tables created when BP installed

mgrunk1
Participant

BuddyPress 1.0

Wordpress MU 2.7.1

*replaced db name w/ mydb – and this is the errors that show at the bottom of the page in the admin – if I delete the BP plugin, the messages all go away.

WordPress database error Table ‘mydb.wp_bp_xprofile_data’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT d.value, f.name FROM wp_bp_xprofile_data d, wp_bp_xprofile_fields f WHERE d.field_id = f.id AND d.user_id = 1 AND f.parent_id = 0 AND f.name = ‘Name’ made by require, require_once, require_once, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_setup_globals, bp_core_global_user_fullname, bp_fetch_user_fullname, xprofile_get_field_data, BP_XProfile_ProfileData->get_value_byfieldname WordPress database error Table ‘mydb.wp_bp_xprofile_fields’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT id FROM wp_bp_xprofile_fields WHERE name = ‘Name’ made by require, require_once, require_once, require_once, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_setup_globals, bp_core_global_user_fullname, bp_fetch_user_fullname, xprofile_set_field_data, xprofile_get_field_id_from_name, BP_XProfile_Field->get_id_from_name WordPress database error Table ‘mydb.wp_bp_notifications’ doesn’t exist for query SELECT * FROM wp_bp_notifications WHERE user_id = 1 AND is_new = 1 made by require, require_once, include, get_footer, locate_template, load_template, require_once, wp_footer, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_core_admin_bar, do_action, call_user_func_array, bp_adminbar_notifications_menu, bp_core_get_notifications_for_user, BP_Core_Notification->get_all_for_user

May 20, 2009 at 1:10 pm #45708

In reply to: extended profiles

2683049
Inactive

In English it is in the BuddyPress Plugin – xProfile.

Click on:

BuddyPress > Profile Field Setup

The instructions read:

“Your users will distinguish themselves through their profile page. You must give them profile fields that allow them to describe themselves in a way that is relevant to the theme of your social network.

NOTE: Any fields in the first group will appear on the signup page.”

And it works very well!

May 19, 2009 at 10:06 am #45647

In reply to: extended profiles

2903192
Inactive

You can add new profile fields in the bp menue in your WPMU admin area.

Open there the Buddypress menue and click “Profilefelder” (I guess you are German)

A http://-entry will be displayed automatically as a Link.

May 17, 2009 at 6:46 pm #45541

In reply to: Buddypress.org profile layout theme, I want it!

David Mazza
Participant

The default member theme sucks, and I haven’t seen anyone significantly modify it. I plan to do so at some point, but I don’t understand why they didn’t just model it from their own awesome member theme. Even the skeleton member theme is more or less the same as the default. You would have to make significant modifications to the skeleton theme itself for it to be anything like the buddypress.org member theme.

Specific issues:

Profile fields are way too spaced out.

The navigation design isn’t really necessary.

The wire should be on top, and profile fields in a small table below. Everything else is mostly unnecessary.

May 17, 2009 at 6:44 am #45519

In reply to: Plugin for customizing the way profile fields are filtered

Burt Adsit
Participant

Make sure you tag your plugin with ‘buddypress’ so it automatically shows up in the bp plugin area.

May 17, 2009 at 6:34 am #45517

In reply to: Plugin for customizing the way profile fields are filtered

takuya
Participant

btw, using this method, I think it’s possible to let users define which xprofile entry is visible only to logged in members, and not to non members. This privacy thing will be added in the core, but I just thought this plugin is a good example of that.

May 17, 2009 at 5:17 am #45512

In reply to: Plugin for customizing the way profile fields are filtered

takuya
Participant

wow! this is so cool!

May 16, 2009 at 7:19 pm #45498

In reply to: Apostrophes turn to "///" in Subject Line of Private Messages

corourke
Participant

I’m still seeing this issue as well as it occurring in profile form fields.

May 12, 2009 at 8:33 pm #45179

In reply to: Adding info to profile

danielfelice
Participant

From your admin dashboard

– Select BuddyPress from the left sidebar

– Click Profile Field Setup

– Setup your profile fields

Users will then be prompted to fill in this info when they signup

May 11, 2009 at 10:17 pm #45085

In reply to: php “placeholders”?

Sparksdontflyup
Participant

Okay, so I would edit feild_name and user_id or just feild_name? and how would I get the users full name or just first name? Would I use something like:

<?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( $full_name, $user_id ); ?>

and for the first name:

<?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( $full_name-first, $user_id ); ?>

or what. Would I have to create 2 separate fields for first name and anither for their last and use something like:

<?php echo xprofile_get_field_data( $first_name, $user_id ); ?>

or what?

Thanks.

May 10, 2009 at 7:58 pm #44969

In reply to: SQl Question

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

Please search forum before asking questions; it’s in the FAQ sticky – https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2190

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