I hate to bump, but…any ideas?
@gregfielding are you not wanting to use dropdown select for any reason? instead of using checkboxes/radio? Can you have more than one role? If you only need one role per user, why not use dropdown xprofile field and make it required at sign up?
As a work-around, I wonder if I could use this plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-xprofiles-acl/ to assign roles based on the profile field answer.
Then I could more easily show different sidebars depending on roles.
Not the cleanest way to do it. Has anyone else had trouble with checkboxes?
@pcwriter @johnjamesjacoby
Yup. Bug is definitely still there. Nice find!
@gregfielding
Just tested the snippet by @nuhammadrid above with a dropdown select and it works perfectly.
I found this old trac ticket (pre 1.2.6) but maybe checkboxes/radio buttons are stilla bit buggy with xprofile_get_field_data
Looks much cleaner, but still isn’t working. I tried using a radio button and that didn’t work either.
What I’m trying to do should be simple 
If you are a professional, you get one sidebar. If you are a civilian, you get another. And I’ve got a checkbox on the registration form.
Thanks for all of your help so far you guys…
yet another way to do it, i think…
`<?php
global $bp;
$user_id = $bp->loggedin_user->id;
$type_member = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Real Estate Industry Professional’, $user_id );?>
<?php if($type_member == 'Yes')
>
Yes Sidebar
<?php elseif($type_member == 'No')>
Another Sidebar for this option
Sidebar for everyone else
`
yea there’s prolly an easier way to go about it. I’ve just copied/pasted/refreshed different combinations til something worked. I look forward to seeing something simple to use for stuff like this. hehe
‘if($type_member == ‘Yes’)…`
Either way, even if I create a second function, It isn’t recognizing the profile field.
This seems fishy to me. Is $type_member really the way to call a profile field entry? Or could it be a checkbox issue?
don’t know what I just did but this seems to work…
`loggedin_user->id) == ‘Yes’) : ?>
Red Sidebar
<?php elseif(is_user_logged_in())>
Another sidebar
`
and you want this to look like this
`//CHECK IF THE ACCT IS CERTAIN ACCT TYPE
function My_Function ($user_id) {
global $bp;
$type_member = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Real Estate Industry Professional’, $user_id );
if($type_member == ‘Yes’) {
return true;
}
}`
I couldn’t figure out how to display something else…
I guess you could create different functions for each type of field
`loggedin_user->id)) : ?>
Red Sidebar
loggedin_user->id)) : ?>
Blue Sidebar
`
I wish I knew enough about what all is happening in that piece of code. So that I could make it work the way i proposed. otherwise, there will be a blank sidebar for non logged in users and users who don’t have a xprofile field selected corresponding with those requirements.
@pcwriter – replacing “Yes” with “1” didn’t work – was that what you meant?
@nahummadrid – yes, that works.
`loggedin_user->id)) : ?>
Red Sidebar
`
This works though right.
@gregfielding
Try using boolean values instead. If you want “Some other sidebar” to display if the box is checked, then the value should be “1”. Worth a try…
Thanks @nahummadrid
I think it’s closer but still not working right. It only shows “Some other Sidebar”.
Here’s my code:
`//CHECK IF THE ACCT IS CERTAIN ACCT TYPE
function My_Function ($user_id) {
global $bp;
$type_member = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Real Estate Industry Professional’, $user_id );
if($type_member == ‘Yes’) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}`
I wonder if the issue is that I’m using a checkbox, with the option of “Yes”…
in the function, where color = your main field heading, I’ve used a dropdown. and Red is one of the drop down items to select from.
I don’t know if it works the same if the field was just a text field. I imagine so.
@gregfielding I forgot where I found this (maybe bp-tricks)
put this in your bp-custom
`//CHECK IF THE ACCT IS CERTAIN ACCT TYPE
function My_Function ($user_id) {
global $bp;
$type_member = xprofile_get_field_data( ‘Color’, $user_id );
if($type_member == ‘Red’) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}`
Then to display in sidebar
`
loggedin_user->id)) : ?>
Red Sidebar
Some other Sidebar
`
Trying to call the loggedin_user_id, but doing to wrong…
`loggedin_user->id) && bp_get_profile_field_data(‘field=783’) === “Yes”) : ?>
sample code
`
Here’s the code I’m trying to use in my sidebar:
`
sample code
`
I use S2member to monitor my sites membership, it provides hooks and such (not too sure about the terminology) that allow you to display content to certain user roles. I have a user role for companies (experts). I also have a profile field group just for them. It is the last group.
I have added inline css using last-child selector to hide the menu option to edit this profile group from everyone except members that have a level 2 membership. And since Buddypress will only show profile data if the field has been filled in, it only shows on Experts (level 2 ) users public profiles.
If this is confusing, let me know and I’ll try to give exact steps for how I accomplished this.
@gregfielding
Check out this thread. You can adapt the code provided for xprofile fields by simply replacing the ul class with `table.profile-fields`.
https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/make-drop-down-menu-links-open-in-new-page/
There are also several plugins that might get the job done too, but you may have to fiddle with them. Search the wp repo for “Open external links in a new window” for a few examples.
I was able to hack this plugin to accomplish most of what I needed:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-export-users/
You have to edit the array in the plugin file to use your buddypress profile fields (you can add or delete), but other than that, pretty slick.
Sorry guys for some reason I don’t get emails sent to me when there is activity in my groups and I haven’t been too active here for a while. I have made a start and produced something usable, but haven’t worked on it for a while, so I would like to make this code available to anyone who is interested to expand on it. I managed to implement a feature to force users to complete mandatory fields in their profile if they haven’t done so.
Help yourselves… http://www.utechworld.com/files/public/buddypress-utech-user-manager.zip
Have fun …
