It would be useful to link user profile fields to a user. Currently it is only possible to check "Link this field to its user" checkbox only for user fields, but not for profile fields. I find myself often building user lists that display only information from user profiles and it would save me some trouble if profile fields could also be linked to the user.

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#5 patch_views_337741_linkprofilefields.patch737 bytesjoachim

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Jonasvh commented

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merlinofchaos commented

You can accomplish this through theming.

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vesapalmu commented

Yes, I know that you can do this with theming. In my opinion it would make the user interface more consistent to enable links also for profile fields. I don't think I'm the only one who wants to make views of users and link their profile fields to them.

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merlinofchaos commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

What I'm finding is that a lot of people want to link to <foo> and the list of <foo> is actually quite large. Sometimes it's closely related, sometimes it's not. The eventual answer is that Views needs a real answer for generating links to data and adding a bunch of hardcoded "link to this user" isn't the answer, because the desired list is so big. So for the moment, the answer is "You get to theme it" until a real solution can be added in.

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joachim commented
Version: 6.x-2.1 » 6.x-2.x-dev
Status: Closed (won't fix) » Needs review
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new patch_views_337741_linkprofilefields.patch737 bytes

merlinofchaos, as far as I can tell this is a one line patch!
Set profile module fields to use views_handler_field_user instead of views_handler_field.
This makes perfect logical sense -- views_handler_field_user is a generic field handler for user-ish fields, just as views_handler_field_node is a generic handler for anything node-like.

Hey presto, an option to link to user!

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merlinofchaos commented
Status: Needs review » Fixed

Well that's pretty easy, I guess. Committed!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.