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@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;
}
`

member search uses profile fields.

Try this plugin not sure if it still works https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-profile-filters-for-buddypress/

@blackmatarsak,

1) of course, you paste the code after a php closing tag. You also pasted the very first line of the code  which is only my comment.

Remove the closing tag and comment the line with two // or remove it, and things will go better.

Aside, theme’s functions.php use only a php opening tag, never a closing tag ( ?> )

2) can be easily done. See on Codex, profile fields and how to create new profile fields. It’s made on dashboard > users >profile settings

@enej (This is the only place I could reach you) I am building an Intranet on WordPress I have read about using various plugins that I can use to get the job done. I am interested in customizing the dashboard to fit my needs visually and navigation wise. However I am having a hard time really putting my finger on a good plan to get an employee directory and a client directory established in the dashboard area. I read up on your plugin, “profile CCT” I was wondering if it was capable of functioning this way. Each directory should have an area (Maybe the left tab bar area on dashboard) where each employee or client has his/her own profile. The profiles will have custom fields; documents (Word Doc or PDF) will need to be uploaded to some of the fields. An expiration date alert will need to a feature for those document fields too. The alerts for those fields should be sent to the admin on expiration. Any suggestions?

Ok so I managed to find a backwards way of doing it because I needed to be able to do the same thing. Your going to need two plugins.

1. Your Preferred Role Management Plugin. I like Capacity Manager Enhanced
2. Buddypress xProfiles ACL

STEPS
1. Use your role manager to create some new roles. Name them what ever you want.
2. Go into the Users -> Profile Fields
3. Create a Field Group for your Restricted Items (not the primary one).
4. Go to the Settings -> xProfile ACL
5. Put your Field Group that you only want the Admin to be able to edit for the admin only.
6. Now this is important you need to modify the xProfile ACL php file (yes I know this makes it a hack, if xProfile ACL is updated you will lose this setting.)
6a. Go to line 240 of the buddypress-xprofiles-acl.php file. Comment out lines 240 – 249, the code you are commenting out is:

`
function filter_xprofile_groups_with_acl() {
global $bp, $profile_template, $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
foreach($profile_template->groups as $key => $profile_group) {
if( ! in_array($profile_group->id, $this->user_allowed_xprofile_groups) ) {
unset($profile_template->groups[$key]);
}
}
}
`

6b. Below the code you just commented out add:
` function filter_xprofile_groups_with_acl() {}`

7. Save your changes to the buddypress-xprofiles-acl.php file.

8. Now when ever you need to modify the fields log in with your admin account navigate to the user profile in buddy press and select Edit Member Profile from the tool bar. You will see the fields from the private group. Users will see the fields but when they select edit they will not be displayed.

Hope this helps.

@Brendino,

Looking to accomplish the same thing! I haven’t been able to find any good solutions either. If you come up with something please post!

Jimmy