By ghmercado on

On my membership site, I want our NGO's members to log in and update their profile form I created using CCK.

How do I keep them from creating more than one profile?

I want them to make just theirs, limit their access to that (so they can edit it later as needed) and prevent them from making another one.

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ThePickwickProject’s picture

ThePickwickProject commented

When you edit the content type, you can use the field maximum population and set it to 1.

Z2222’s picture

Z2222 commented

What module do you use to get it to show maximum population?

This comment says it's node access, but I installed nodeaccess (D6) and still don't see it:
http://www.drupal.org.uk/node/503#comment-2163

iandickson’s picture

iandickson commented

Profiles work best when they represent an individual or are somehow focussed. If you site is for ORGS then it might be useful to let individuals have profiles - e.g. all the Clean Water Provision experts can then find each other.

Also, if I look for "Water Provision" and see that most profiles are from people in 2-3 orgs, then that tells me that those orgs are the ones most worth talking to, at least to start with.

Organisations don't use sites, individuals within organisations use sites.

Ian Dickson

Likal.com

ghmercado’s picture

ghmercado commented

Oh i see what you mean Ian but in this particular case, trust me, a single profile per person is not just ideal, but to make more than one should probably be illegal.

The site I am making is an org for elected public officials and while it isn't a government site per se, its very close to one.

These public officials (or their assistants or staff) will be logging in to create their profile soon when I realized its actually possible for them to make more than one, hence my question. If they decide to make more than one but representing just one person many future possible uses of the site, such as for polls, will be defeated.

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troym559 commented

Forgive me if I’m wrong but when you set up a content type as a nodeprofile doesn’t it automatically set the maximum population to 1 anyway? I have user profiles that consist of multiple nodprofiles and want some to be set to maximum population 1 and some to be maximum population of 5. But when I set the maximum population to 5 and save the content type it changes it to 1. I would love it if someone could tell me how to increase the maximum population on certain nodprofiles.