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I’ve created a group member list shortcode in the same plugin that allows extra profile fields to be displayed as part of a group member list, don’t suppose all the members you want to display belong to the same group?

You can add shortcodes to display the members profile fields and links to profile using BP Profile Shortcodes Extra. I don’t think you can set a condition that if one profile field is filled in then so should the other one by default but you could write some code to carry out that check an reject the change if the appropriate field is not filled in.

What does profile filters mean?
Profile fields ?
If so, perhaps a profile fields search plugin is what you want.

Hi Ben,

How did you get on with this? I’ve been playing with profile fields and I’ve come up with a solution to this, however there is a bug in BP which prevents it from working:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8082#ticket

Also, in doing this I realised that it would be simpler to add this as a feature to the existing datebox that comes with BP, it already has an option to display the elapsed time and it’s not too difficult to add another option for Age:

https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8083#ticket

Hi there,

In Users>>Profile Fields there is the default Base profile Field Group. The fields are included in the Registration form inputs, if you make any of these required the user can’t sign up unless they fill them out.

You can create other field groups, but the fields on these are not included in the registration page and would need to be filled out after registration.

At the front end, site users viewing the page sitename.com/members/username/profile, There user can edit these fields by accessing the age sitename.com/members/username/edit.

As an admin you can view these details by going to the Users page in admin, for each user there is an Extended link which allows you to view and edit the users Extended Profile (xProfile).

When you are editing the profile field there’s a setting to Autolink the profile field, this should include it in the Members search.

Well one option would be to set up a parental contact as mandatory profile fields, then run a reminder plugin that gets your scouts to enter those details before they can continue to the site. That’s the easy part.

what you would do would be to trigger a function on the messages_message_before_save action, this would return to your function the message object of every message before it got saved and processed.

You can get the recipients array from $message_info->recipients and the person sending the message is get_current_user_id();

You’d want to check the role relationship and if it’s Scout – Scout Leader then you would look up the profile field data using the function xprofile_get_field( $field_id, $user_id, true );

So you could put the parental contacts into profile fields and then run a filter on all outgoing email to check the role relationship and copy in the parental contact as appropriate?

Thanks for your suggestions @venutius. With these the only options I’m going to wait for BuddyDev to update a workaround into BuddyPress Member Types Pro plugin (he’s very proactive, and says it’s now in queue).

Hopefully Nouveau and future BP templates will make conditionally hidden (but required) xProfile fields inert in this state. These fields are so important to augmenting registration on BP sites, and so hopefully it gets baked into the code (instead of having to find workarounds).

I appreciate your help!

Sam

Yep tht function works for the main WordPress signup fields, not the extended profile fields. However, thinking about it what this would do would make all those fields options, so why don’t you make all the fiedls optional in your settings, then you would not get the error, obviously it means making fields you want filling out optional but the way Nouveau works there’s not really an alternative if you are going to hide them for some member types.

The alternative would be to create a multi-stage signup form where the first page takes in the basic signup information and member type then the second page displays the extended profile info specific to the member type.

BP Better Registration splits the form into sections, I wonder if that could be used to create such a signup form?

See my response in https://buddypress.org/support/topic/bypass-email-requirement-2/ it includes a function to remove the required setting for profile fields in BP Nouveau, I think it will help.

Any solution to this? I also need images to be allowed in xprofile text fields.

I guess one option would be to use a text widget to display the profile fields using shortcodes such as are provided with BP Profile Shortcodes Extra. Then you’d just need to hide these from displaying in the page content which could be a simple case of some CSS?

I think you’d have to write a custom profile field which retained the date of birth on edit, but displayed the age when viewed. As a first option I’d ask the developers of the few xprofile custom fields plugins if they’d consider adding it as an option.