So I’m using the BP Profile Privacy field but its not privacy protecting the activity stream or anything else…just profile fields. How can I prevent anyone but friends from seeing the profile fields, or albums, etc.
@mwspr
Thank u very much.
@boonebgorges
Would u please help? Thank u in advance.
Just can’t seem to get it working. Keep getting errors in setting up the location fields, can’t see map on “edit profile” page. Can anyone give more detailed instructions on installing, activating and settings? The instructions on the download page just are not enough.
@contoaberto
Its better to notify using @mention feature.So that you will get your reply faster and also the notification goes to the user you intended to ask.Anyways I will do it for you.
@boonebgorges
hi, Boone Gorges,
Thank u very much for the info. But I have to confess I’m very much a newbie to understand what I might have done. Would you mind please explain a bit more – maybe in a dummie way?
By brackets I meant inequality signs ><.
When the members try to use them in their status uppdates, forum posts and profile fields, they simply don’t appear. I’m using WP 3.0 and BP 1.2.5.2.
What do you mean by brackets?
1 ( these )
2 { these }
3 [ these ]
or something else?
What’s happening when users try to use them? And in what context are they using them, activity updates or forum posts or profile fields or what?
And what version of BP/WP are you running? https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/when-asking-for-support/
I’m also facing same issue.. even I added manually insert query inside code like this (I have stored the values in session)
$sql=”INSERT INTO wp_bp_xprofile_data (field_id, user_id, value) VALUES(1,$curr_id, ‘”.$_SESSION.”‘)”;
result=mysql_query($sql)or die(mysql_error());
This is storing the data in database but not retrieving 
@shedmore did u got this fixed up ???
ok, thank you for help! I’ll do it by grouping, it’ll be better…
That will work. The only problem is that it’s not entirely future-proof. If the structure of the $field object changes in future versions of BP, you’ll have to rewrite the code.
If I were you, I would use a profile loop, as described at https://codex.buddypress.org/developer-docs/custom-buddypress-loops/the-profile-data-loop-bp_has_profile/. That way you can use the built-in template tags, which won’t break when BP is upgraded.
The xprofile template tags aren’t as fleshed out as I wish they were, but they should work nicely for your purpose. Put the three fields that you want to appear in column 1 in a profile field group, the next three fields in another group, etc. Then it’ll be easy to create the markup using bp_profile_groups() loop.
Maybe I should be more concrete. My main task is to get profile fields structured inside the profile page. I need to place fields in 3 columns and in right order. So let’s imagine that we have 9 fields: Login, email, password, First Name, Last Name, Middle Name, Country, City, Address, Place of birth, Date of birth. I need to place Login, E-mail and Password in the first column in the page, First name, Last name and Middle name in the second column and Country, City, Address, Place of birth and Date of birth in the third column.
So i have field id’s which i can place in my profile page.
Should i do it like this?
echo '
';
$field = new BP_XProfile_Field( '1' );
$field_name = $field->name;
$field_value = $field->value;
echo '
' . $field_name . ': ' . $field_value . ' |
';
$field = new BP_XProfile_Field( '2' );
$field_name = $field->name;
$field_value = $field->value;
echo '
' . $field_name . ': ' . $field_value . ' |
';
$field = new BP_XProfile_Field( '3' );
$field_name = $field->name;
$field_value = $field->value;
echo '
' . $field_name . ': ' . $field_value . '';
echo '
|
';
/* and so on */
am I right?
I understand your question, and you’re right, there is no such function. But from inside of a profile loop, you can use bp_the_profile_field_name(), and it will get the $field_id implicitly from the loop iteration.
If you don’t want to build a loop, you can get the field name from the $field_id like this:
$field = new BP_XProfile_Field( $field_id );
$field_name = $field->name;
no-no-no… I think you didn’t understand me… I need to get field name by id but there is NO function
“xprofile_get_field_NAME( $field_name_or_id [, optional $user_id] )”
such as “xprofile_get_field_DATA( $field_name_or_id [, optional $user_id] )” which exists.
Yes, you can do this with the xprofile template functions, which are located at buddypress/bp-xprofile/bp-xprofile-templatetags.php. Use the profile loops in buddypress/bp-themes/bp-default/members/single/profile/profile-loop.php as a template.
Good day!
I’m interesting is there an easy way to create a new type of profile fields?
There are checkbox, selectbox, textfield, etc. but there are no such specific fields like yearbox (like ‘2010’) or fields with restrictions (like numbers between 1 and 17) or something else…
first of all I need yearbox, can you help me?
thanks in advance
Horoshiy
Good day!
is there a way to call profile fields by id, but not only data in the field but an input_name, name, description, etc.
function “echo xprofile_get_field_data( $field_name_or_id [, optional $user_id] );” echoes just data and nothing more.
Maybe I should rewrite function bp_the_profile_field() to bp_the_profile_field_byid( $field_id, $userid=null ); or there is another way?
thanks in advance…
Dmitriy.
Hi, sorry for not responding earlier. First thing, thanks for your reply.
Then, by “custom code”, do you mean i’ll need to do something trickier than a plugin for example ? My plan was to manage some new fields in the WP usermeta table, i think that will be enough, am i Wrong ?
Thanks again,
hms.
to make registration page multilingual you need to copy the register.php from buddypress/bp-default/registration folder to your themes folder and make your changes by replacing the loop :
http://buddypress.pastebin.com/wC4fCkbT
hope this works for anyone interested..
Edit: this makes only the registration page multilingual, but unfortunately it doesn’t translate the member’s profile view and edit fields.. instead they show what you saved in the profile setup fields in the backend.
Hi,
i’m using buddypress to create a lightweight crm application.
Company information goes into the default field group and management info goes into the extended group.
The problem, usually each company has more than one manager. So I need more than one management extended field group.
The question, can buddypress be adapted to provide more then one extended field group that have the same field names?
For example;
the default field group “Company” has the fieldnames companyname, address, telephone, ect.
The extended field group “Management” has the fieldnames firstname, name, email, gender, ect
a second extended field group “Management” has the fieldnames firstname, name, email, gender, ect
a third extended field group “Management” has the fieldnames firstname, name, email, gender, ect
I have a csv file exported from my offline crm software and it’s conformed to the custom fields that I’ve created in buddypress. With key values and everything.
I’ve manually added a second extended profile in the mysql table with the same user ID and it only shows the second(latest) extended profile data, but not both extended profiles.
furthermore, i’ve opened the file profile-loop.php in dreamweaver, but i have no idea what to alter in order for this to work.
I’m using wordpress version 9.2 and buddypress version 1.2.5, can someone please point me in the right direction?
thank you
hi, Boone Gorges,
Thank u very much for the info. But I have to confess I’m very much a newbie to understand what I might have done. Would you mind please explain a bit more – maybe in a dummie way? 
Interesting: I jsut noticed that if I go to the user dashboard, there is amuch more detailed profile, with may fields, this updates and is correctly working. the buddypress user profile is the one throwing the error / redirect. It also only has 1 field “Name”
Any thoughts?
Hi all,
Trying to manage firstnames and lastnames for my users, i’d like to know how to easily get those fields in my theme in order to build a (firstname, lastname) list for all users. Can anyone give me a tip on how to do that ?
Thanks !
Hi,
i’m using buddypress to create a light crm application.
I have a csv file exported from my offline crm software and it’s conformed to the custom fields that I’ve created in buddypress. With key values and everything.
Company information goes into the first field group and management info goes into the second group.
The problem, usually each company has more than one manager. So I need more than one management field group.
The question, can buddypress be adapted to provide more then extended field group that have the same field names?
For example
field group “Company” has the fieldnames companyname, address, telephone, ect.
The field group “Management” has the fieldnames firstname, name, email, gender, ect
a second field group “Management” has the fieldnames firstname, name, email, gender, ect
a third field group “Management” has the fieldnames firstname, name, email, gender, ect
wordpress version 9.2 and buddypress version 1.2.5
thank you for your help
@johnjamesjacoby Xprofile fields groups after the main group don’t work in 1.2.5! I added a new group on my site for an bio in the profile field system then added a multi line entry for that group also named bio and in the front end I cant find it.
@peterverkooijen said; “There is also zero privacy/security in Buddypress”. Care to expand upon that Peter? Our site isn’t ‘open for business’ yet, but when it is our members will expect some privacy, ie., profile stuff set to private and private group posts actually being private. Are you saying it can’t/won’t be properly private?
