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@jancbeck Maybe with a few coding that would be possible…

Awesome @maddogmcewan! Thank you for sharing! =)

you should also look at an old plugin called BP Resume it nay be of some use to you…. I tweaked it a bit at smeak.com and it works quite well

@henrywright-1

Bingo re elephant.

While it’s easy to change by editing the register template, the why-is-it-there question seems worthy of a trac ticket.

@henrywright-1 As you can probably see, my ‘huge mis-understanding’ was quite easily done :} yep and I meant no offence in the phrase ‘huge mis-understanding’ 🙂

@henrywright-1 ah you were labouring under a huge mis-understanding of what this meant, as Boone says it’s pseudo privacy for display of users details on their profile – if admin allows users to configure that given field – it’s NOT anything to do with whether the field is hidden on registration view.

However there are still issue with how this works with reg form or it needs a good review.

This has definitely come up, the text label jogs my memory.

It may make sense that one had change link on pre-registration if the value selected was being passed along with the registration and setup of the user_meta and if the admin setting allowed users to change the field value but as I doubt that’s in fact possible and fact Boone has said it’s simply meant to impart the status of that given profile field visibility then the change select needs to be removed.

Regardless of what it refers to, why would
“This field can be seen by: etc. ” under each Base field on the register page
and a ‘change’ link be visible on a register page to a non-logged-in visitor?

That’s what I meant by it failing the bp_current_user_can() check.

@henrywright-1

Do you see “This field can be seen by: etc. ” under each Base field on the register page?
And a ‘change’ link?

Per the image above ?

This rings a bell, think it may have been discussed ( I certainly have a recollection of looking at this aspect of profile visibility and registration processes) before in some respect or another and there may already be a ticket raised.

I believe you’ve found a bug.
The Base group allows an admin to set default visibility levels.
I was going to suggest you set each field to “logged-in users” and allow users to change their visibility.

But those settings are not honored on the register form.

You can submit a bug here.
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/
Log in with the same user / pw you use for these forums.

Also – do you also see “This field can be seen by: etc. ” under each Base field on the register page?
And a ‘change’ link?

There is a check in register.php, but it apparently fails by returning true for logged out users.

`if ( bp_current_user_can( ‘bp_xprofile_change_field_visibility’ ) ) `

Like this image taken while logged out on a vanilla install of WP 3.5.1, BP 1.7, 2012 theme

I’m sorry @jancbeck, I wasn’t understanding what you wanted. Now I do and can’t think of a way, but if I come across of something, make sure I will let you know.

You can add as much as fields as you want. The students would fill them according in their seetings page (here you could change the name for one more appealing) and those fields are searchable by default so you would not have a problem with it.

Bu BuddyPress does all you want out of the box.

@tux-kapono
This can be done out of the box. In the dashboard/users/profile fields create a new profile field under base because this is the fields in registration and under “Is this field required” make it required. In “field type” choose checkboxes. Under “please enter options for this Field:” just leave sort as is and in the text field below it type “I Agree To The Sites Terms Of Service” (This can be what you want really just a suggestion). Under “Default Visibility” check Default value. And That wraps it up really.

@mahdiar
Suggesting as a trac ticket is not necessary. Its already there if you just do the follow the instructions given!

Hi @gsj,

Add this code to functions.php file of the current theme.

`
add_filter(‘bp_xprofile_get_hidden_fields_for_user’,’bp_define_hidden_fields’, 10 ,3 );
function bp_define_hidden_fields( $hidden_fields, $displayed_user_id, $current_user_id ) {
//if not admin or if not the the profile of the current user
if ( !is_super_admin( $current_user_id) && ($displayed_user_id != $current_user_id) ) {
//add name field ( id = 1 ) to the hidden fields
$hidden_fields[] = 1;
}
return $hidden_fields;
}
`