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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

you need to add more fields to either “base” (unless you have renamed “base”) or you can also add new groups and add the new fields there.

@pete-deane,

the xprofile component offers all type of html forms fields, except upload box for security reason. This is simply not possible “as is”. The only thing you can do is to copy/paste an URL into a a single line textarea.

Or invite your user to enter their CV into a multiline textarea. And copy/pasting a formated CV in this box will loose his formating.

So there is no possibility at this time to join a separate document to a profile.

See perhaps what you can do with bp group documents plugin.

Anyone have a solution to converting the vertical xprofile field database structure to a horizontal more efficient structure?

I have 10 million entries in my xprofile_data table and my site crashes everytime i try to filter anything with ajax… very frustrting.

i am going to extract the important xprofile fields and convert them to a horizontal database structure and point my search box to the new table.

anyone done this before?

Add this to your themes functions.php or bp-custom.php:
`
/*
* Remove autolinks created in buddypress profiles
*/
function remove_xprofile_links() {
remove_filter( ‘bp_get_the_profile_field_value’, ‘xprofile_filter_link_profile_data’, 9, 2 );
}
add_action( ‘bp_init’, ‘remove_xprofile_links’ );
`

how can i have an “About me” section in the registration … keywords

“About me” section like http://testbp.org/members/johnjamesjacoby/profile/ was done by creating a new Profile Field Group then adding xprofile fields for that group. As for keywords, you could create radio or multiple select boxes et al with defined keywords for members to choose from or create a text boxes with instructions to members to list interests separated by commas

@danspeak12 what specifically are you looking for? xprofile fields can already be set by members to show publicly, for friends only, or for admin only. There’s a plugin to make activity streams show up for friends only https://buddypress.org/support/topic/buddypress-activity-for-self-and-friends-only/

Hi,

I’m using BP 1.6.4, and the link doesn’t work for me to be able to turn off the linking. I still have the linking showing. Please advise.

Not sure what your issue is here, create a new profile field with a select drop down then start adding the 202 countries as option fields, set it as required and ensure it’s in the base group so it shows on the register page. On members display you can then check the profile field to see what selection a user has.

hi @jmetzger631

Assuming you used xprofile component to do so.

You have to enter the correct profile field name. This means the name, in fact the field title, you entered when you create the profile field.

Probably “Company” or “Your company” or something readable for your public.

In BP 1.7/bp-default/members/members-loop.php:67 there is an example who explains this too.

/***
* If you want to show specific profile fields here you can,
* but it’ll add an extra query for each member in the loop
* (only one regardless of the number of fields you show):
*
* bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=the field name’ );
*/

You can also create a function to insert a do_action in the members-loop.

In the function, intented to work outside of the profile loop, you need the user id and the xprofile data

$user_id=bp_get_member_user_id();
$anything = xprofile_get_field_data (‘the_field_name’, $user_id);
echo $anything;

add_action ( ‘a_name_of_your_choice’, ‘your_function_name’)

and somewhere in the loop, do_action( ‘a_name_of_your_choice’ )