Select userrefererence field from the user profile [#474468]

I have a website in which there are two types of user roles - mentor and mentee. Mentee can create a 'Request' node in which userreference field is one of the mentors.

I want to provide a button on each mentor profile. When a mentee clicks this button, then a node/add/request page opens in which the userreference filed is pre-selected (it is the mentor from whose profile the button is clicked).

How is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

Comments

Comment #1

huangja commented 27 May 2009 at 18:49

I actually edited nodereference.module to allow the passage of arguments through the url.

Look here:
http://drupal.org/node/473670

I know that it's nodereference and not userreference, but I'm working on userreference right now and that solution should be up soon.

You can get this working where you can create a link on the mentor's page to 'node/add/request/mentor_name', thereby populating the field with the mentor name.

However, this might better suit your needs: http://drupal.org/project/prepopulate

Comment #2

helloanshul commented 28 May 2009 at 05:21

thanks for your response :)
i am eager to see the userreference solution.

Comment #3

huangja commented 29 May 2009 at 20:32

I posted the userreference solution in a patch:

http://drupal.org/node/473670#comment-1638842

I haven't tested it yet, so I can't guarantee it'll work, but you can give it a try.

Comment #4

comfort_drupal commented 28 October 2009 at 05:03

@helloanshul, i am looking for the same feature, can you please provide me the URL of site, so i can get the better visibility.

Comment #5

markus_petrux commented 28 October 2009 at 07:58

Status:

Active

» Fixed

Extending the user profile is not CCK issue per-se. You can use Drupal core APIs to do it. For example:

http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_user/6

Once you know how to modify the user profile, then you can build a link that uses Prepopulate module syntax to add the proper arguments, and that should do the trick.

http://drupal.org/project/prepopulate