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By johnny_up on
Hi,
I am trying to use the advance profile kit w/ Content Profile and Panes. Overall it's awesome, but I've run into a few difficulties, and I cannot figure out where the problem is. When I am editing the user profile template, and go to edit content, all of the 'profile node' content appears to be there (including what I want, node comments and comment form), and looks to be present when I preview it, but none of it appears when I actually view the page. I tried all of the node content pieces, and none if it will appear. It's just an empty box. I have read that there are some problems when using comment modules like Nodecomment, but I'm just using the core comment.
Not nearly as important, but still frustrating, the relationships portion works, but friends on the profile page are listed as names with links, not their avatar.
Any ideas? I'm pulling my hair out here, and I can't figure it out.
Comments
AHA!
I don't know whether this is always the case, or whether I played with it so much to get it working that perhaps I caused the install to hiccup along the way...but if this happens to anyone else in the future...
I couldn't get profile node portions to work until I actually edited the user profile (like, added data into a the content type user profile - q=user/user_id/profile/uprofile) and saved it - where upon I got the message "User Profile the_profile_title_I_gave_it has been created". After the user profile for that user had been created (although the user already existed) the comment form worked perfectly. Moving forward, all the new accounts work great, but I had to edit the user profile data for the pre-existing users in order to get that part of the page to work, so that the user profile portion of the acct would get created.
Such a small thing, but it caused me a lot of grief. The APK is awesome when you get it working!
Content profile
That actually has nothing to do with APK. Content Profile, the module that handles connecting a profile node to each user, does not auto create them for existing users. New users don't get them auto created, either, unless you put at least one field from it on the registration page.
Michelle
Any fixes you know of for that content profile problem?
Hi Michelle,
I'm experiencing the same problem. I know it's not your project, but do you know of any fixes for the Content Profile issue above?
Thanks! Love your module.
Craig
I am sure you got this
I am sure you got this working by now, but in case of other people who run into this trouble, if you are using content profile module for user profile fields and you wanna display them using apk, you can use the views module to create the profile fields manually, then add them to the user page by editing the user profile template (ctools must be installed and views content panes must be enabled for this to work)
When using views to display content of a particular user like profile fields, something is important, which is, making the views to display only the content of the user whose profile is being viewed. To achieve this, use arguements (ie add arguements=> provide default arguement=> user ID from URL). Hope this helps someone.
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Why on Earth would you go through all that? You can just add Content Profile fields directly to the Page Manager variant. You don't need to involve Views or edit any templates.
The problem the other poster was having is that CP doesn't create profile nodes automatically. I didn't see the question back then but, no, I don't have an answer to that.
Michelle