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@onyx808

Oops… my comment about “Required” fields is a bit (a lot?) misleading

Users will not be able to save their profile settings until all required fields are filled out… that’s what I meant by “trapped”

@onyx808

That’s a basic feature of profile fields. Go to “Profile Field Setup” in your backend and you’ll see this:
“NOTE: Any fields in the first group will appear on the signup page.”

Simply click the “Add New Field Group” button and create the fields you want in that new group. They will not appear on the signup page, but will be available on the user’s Profile page.

Be careful with the “Required” setting though. If you set fields in new groups to “Required”, your users will be trapped on their profile page the first time they visit until they fill in all required fields.

Hi.
Thanks for the code Brajesh! I just had one question. I’ve defined different profile field groups for different user types. I want to restrict the visibility of these filed groups to only those users (e.g. users of type A get to see only those profile fields for user type A). My problem is that when I use your code

<?php global $bp;
if(bp_get_current_profile_group_id()==1)
bp_core_redirect($bp->displayed_user->domain.”profile/edit/group/2″);
?>

it shows the same profile fields for all user types. I guessed it was because 1 is the base profile group ID and tried changing the if loop to

if(bp_get_current_profile_group_id()==ID number of group)
bp_core_redirect($bp->displayed_user->domain.”profile/edit/group/ID number of group”);

but now it shows me only the ‘Editing base profile’ screen

Is this code correct?

Cheers

You are in the right file, so if you are not seeing your changes, then the file is not being overwritten.

Try something simple to see if your edited file is being loaded.
Change this:
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To:
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Not sure. I just downloaded and it worked. I did notice when I was in a member profile and looked at my public profile tab the fields showed up. When not logged in or logged in as another user, the fields were not visible. I am also using Role Manager plugin, not sure if that makes any difference.

@graq Yes into bp_xprofile_fields.

@Mikey3D another thank you from me

It’s not entirely clear how you would integrate this into BuddyPress itself, since every installation will have different “links” between profile fields. What kind of interface would be used to allow site admins to dictate such dependencies? If anyone is interested in providing a patch, or building a plugin, it might be worth looking at something like Drupal to see if they’ve implemented similarly dependent metadata fields, and how they’ve done it.