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Thanks for your help @r-a-y

It’s for the next version of this website: http://www.artmonastery.org

It’s for a network of artists. Each blog will be a specific art project, and each subscriber/author will be an artist participating in that art project. Many artists will be participating in many different art projects, and I’d like their bio information to be publicly displayed on each blog/project.

The blogs will be the public “portal” for each of the art projects, which we will us to promote the projects. The groups that are associated with each blog (with the group blog plugin) will be the internal communication tool for the artists.

I’d like all the subscribers/authors/etc (aka artists) for a given blog (aka art project) to be listed at the top of the blog’s index.php page, with a few fields from the xprofile (bio, specialty, etc.). Ideally, I’d get them to echoed in a way that was easy to feed into a snazzy jquery slider gizmo.

artists.

I’m trying to build a resource for these artists that is really 1 database with many faces, and given that I love wordpress, buddypress seemed like the best way to do that. It’s just stretching my abilities, at the moment

Hi Paul,

I was thinking about that option. Some fields can be very big, what’s the datatype used for multi-line text box? I want to allow my users to add maximum of 1-2 pages worth of text in these fields.

Also, is there a way to enable TinyMCE to format text in multi-line text box?

Final question: If I use a Drop down select box, can I direct users to a different group based on their response.

Lets say I create two groups – Football and Hockey.

I get my user to select their sport, if the select Football, they get directed to Football group to fill out football profile, other wise they get directed to Hockey group to fill out hockey profile.

more experimentation leads me to this solution:

items from the form are passed through global.js

i found and modified the posted items to include /match my new fields:

/* Default POST values */

var object = ”;

var item_id = j(“#whats-new-post-in”).val();

var content = j(“textarea#whats-new”).val();

var artist = j(“input#artist”).val();

var track = j(“input#track”).val();

/* Set object for non-profile posts */

if ( item_id > 0 ) {

object = j(“#whats-new-post-object”).val();

}

j.post( ajaxurl, {

action: ‘post_update’,

‘cookie’: encodeURIComponent(document.cookie),

‘_wpnonce_post_update’: j(“input#_wpnonce_post_update”).val(),

‘content’: content,

‘artist’: artist,

‘track’: track,

‘object’: object,

‘item_id’: item_id

},

and it worked just fine. _POSTed items are now available in my bp-custom.

Hi Brajesh and thanks for the quick response.

I think your code is great but my problem is that the registration page only show whatever fields that are in group 1 (default BP function) and I need a few extra fields to be filled out in the signup page, any way around this such as showing the group 2 fields in register?

Thanks,

Gene

Dang, I have to reopen this thread, one thing was solved but another problem was created.

Brajesh’s code solved my “user can’t edit his name field” but I then realized that the registration page only showed the profile name field (which I renamed Username) which was the only field I had in profile group 1.

My problem now is that I need extra fields upon registration but I still want the name field hidden or not editable in the edit profile screen.

Is there something I can change in Brajesh’s code (or new code altogether) that will accomplish this?

Thanks,

Gene

I changed that to 100% and it still doesn’t change. Here is the Tables/Forum section from default.css:

/* > Data Tables

---

*/

table {

width: 100%;

}

table#message-threads {

margin: 0 -20px;

width: 100%;

}

table.profile-fields { margin-bottom: 20px; }

div#sidebar table {

margin: 0 -16px;

width: 117%;

}

table tr td, table tr th {

padding: 8px;

vertical-align: middle;

}

table tr td.label {

border-right: 1px solid #eaeaea;

font-weight: bold;

width: 25%;

}

table tr td.thread-info p { margin: 0; }

table tr td.thread-info p.thread-excerpt {

color: #888;

font-size: 11px;

margin-top: 3px;

}

div#sidebar table td, table.forum td { text-align: center; }

table tr.alt {

background: #f4f4f4;

}

table.notification-settings {

margin-bottom: 20px;

text-align: left;

}

table.notification-settings th.icon, table.notification-settings td:first-child { display: none; }

table.notification-settings th.title { width: 80%; }

table.notification-settings .yes, table.notification-settings .no { width: 40px; text-align: center; }

table.forum {

margin: -9px -20px 20px -20px;

width: 100%;

}

table.forum tr:first-child {

background: #fafafa;

}

table.forum tr.sticky td {

background: #FFF9DB;

border-top: 1px solid #FFE8C4;

border-bottom: 1px solid #FFE8C4;

}

table.forum tr.closed td.td-title {

padding-left: 35px;

background-image: url( ../images/closed.png );

background-position: 15px 50%;

background-repeat: no-repeat;

}

table.forum td p.topic-text {

color: #888;

font-size: 11px;

}

table.forum tr > td:first-child, table.forum tr > th:first-child {

padding-left: 15px;

}

table.forum tr > td:last-child, table.forum tr > th:last-child {

padding-right: 15px;

}

table.forum tr th#th-title, table.forum tr th#th-poster,

table.forum tr th#th-group, table.forum td.td-poster,

table.forum td.td-group, table.forum td.td-title { text-align: left; }

table.forum td.td-freshness {

font-size: 11px;

color: #888;

}

table.forum td img.avatar {

margin-right: 5px;

}

table.forum td.td-poster, table.forum td.td-group {

min-width: 130px;

}

table.forum th#th-title {

width: 100%;

}

table.forum th#th-postcount {

width: 1%;

}

Ok, DJPaul, I just did: https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2283

jivany, thanks a lot for taking an interest in this. I appreciate.

I eventually ended up re-arranging things to have the best with what BP provides (limitations?).

But I will test the above code and see if I get want I wanted.

I’ll report later.

Thanks.

It’s really just tjis that I need for problem #1:

<?php if (custom_xprofile('About me') ) : ?>

<h3>About me:</h3>

<?php custom_xprofile('About me'); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

If the About me field is filled, it should display

<h3>About me:</h3>

if it is not filled in, it shouldn’t display the h3 heading.

And with the above snippet, it always displays it. It’s the conditional statement that I cannot get right.