By RobotHero on
Right now the user profiles don't have much info on them.
How do I give each user a text area for a bio, plus show their email address?
Right now the user profiles don't have much info on them.
How do I give each user a text area for a bio, plus show their email address?
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You can do this by going
You can do this by going into your Admin section, clicking Settings, Profiles. In there you can add various text fields.
I don't see 'Profiles'
I don't see anything for 'Profiles' under Settings. Is there a module I'll need to do that? Do you have the 'Members' module installed or something else I don't have?
I've got two sites, one with 4.6 and one with 4.7, and I can't find Profiles settings in either. I can find 'user' settings, but the only extra thing I can add to the profile is an avatar.
I would also like to include a list of the user's posts under a certain category.
enable "profile" module, first
yes. it's included in core, but not enabled by default. it's called "profile".
enjoy,
-derek
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Thanks
Thanks. I keep forgetting about those modules.
What about listing someone's posts on their profile? How could that be done?
I managed to find a page
I managed to find a page about customizing the user profile which will help me do more complicated things with the way it is presented.
enable "tracker" module
use the "tracker" module. it's simple, powerful, and also included in core, (but not enabled by default).
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Excellent.
Excellent.
Now, is there any way I can put all the editable fields on one page?
Right now, when a user clicks on "edit" it brings up two sub-tabs beneath it. Account settings, and info. ("Info" contains the extra fields that I added with the "profile" module.)
I was showing the site to a friend of mine, and she clicked on "Edit" and then she went through everything on that page, and then she went to a different area of the site. She never clicked on the "info" tab, and she was completely unaware that there were additional text fields for user info.
So, I don't want the edit profile to be broken into two pages. I want it all on one page. How?
user friendly user profile pages..
Hi Rob,
As a tip and if you're using a phptemplate based theme..you could create a bespoke profile node that makes it easier for users to edit their details...i.e. instead of clicking on a tab to edit certain details, when the user is looking at their own profile you can put a direct EDIT link after each field..
e.g.
Name: Joe Bloggs (edit)
Country: Bloggsland (edit)
Town: Bloggsville (edit)
Phone: +123456780 (Edit)
skype ID: joe_bloggs (Edit)
Where the edit links only appear when admin/the person who owns the profile is viewing the page.
More info. on how to do that is at this handbook section:
Customising the user profile nodes
edited: check out the Insert user friendly "click here to add your.." links when user profile fields are left blank snippet at that handbook section which can be edited to suit.
Dub
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate
absolute gem
thanks Dub. I was looking for precisely this. That handbook section is growing into an absolute goldmine.
Thank you.
Paul
thanks
thanks paul.
As you become more familiar with Drupal (I notice you are very new) feel free to contribute back snippets of your own.
We'll be extending out the handbook section to include style.css (style sheet) snippets so theming can become more modular based. I think that might work better than contributing full themes. i.e. the way the headers are done in theme xyz look great but if I don't want to use the full theme it's tricky to extract out just the style snippets I want without downloading the full theme and working out how it's constructed.
Similarly, I think users will be more fluid contributing theme/style snippets rather than full blown themes. So not only will it add an extra dimension to the theme handbooks, it might grow quicker as well.
Anyway. thanks for the thumbs up. Appreciate it.
Dub
Currently in Switzerland working as an Application Developer with UBS Investment Bank...using Drupal 7 and lots of swiss chocolate