Step 1: Create your content type and set it as nodeprofile

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30 April 2025

First of all you have to install at least two modules, nodeprofile and nodefamily.
Then go to admin/content/types and create a new content type, which will be used for your nodeprofile. Before saving the content type (in the Workflow from group), be sure to that check the checkbox "Use this content type as a nodeprofile for users" (You can find this in the workflow fieldset in Drupal 5.) Now the nodeprofile module uses the nodefamily module to restrict the "Maximum number of nodes of this content type per user." to 1.
Nodefamily calls this setting "maximum node population". It also refers to content types with a maximum population of 1 as lonely nodes.
Now we already have a simple nodeprofile, consisting of one content-type. Go to the access control settings (/admin/user/access) to restrict the use to the desired user roles.
Now you may wonder, how should your users easily input their profile data? For this task there are several solutions available. First of all it's suggested to remove the default "create content" link for your nodeprofile content type by using the menu module. Your users could use it only once, then it wouldn't work any more, so better disable it.
In the next steps, I'll describe the different possibilities for providing a user friendly way for inputting profile data.

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