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I currently am using content profile to add extra fields to a profile content type. And i was considering of changing everything to apk. But I'm wondering cant apk have multiple profile types? I have about 5 different profile types using content profile and auto assign role. Also can content profile easily be moved to apk.
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no you cant do better with content profile with drupal, there is no any other module that will give you better and more flexible profiles.
drupal 6 profile system is really bad, dont know what they will do with it in d7.
For me this supposed to be in
For me this supposed to be in core since 7, as those profiles haven't changed a bit since the beginning and are really useless.
So in terms of being able to
So in terms of being able to organise the content in content profile. What options are there. Ive liked content profile so far and wasnt looking forwaard to changing if i had to.
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Your question doesn't actually make sense. Content Profile is for storing the data; APK is for displaying it. You don't change from Content Profile to APK, you use Content Profile with APK. APK provides a node type set up for profiles out of the box, but you don't have to use it. It's a kit module and you can re-arrange it however you like via CTools/Panels.
Michelle
Thanks Michelle I didn't
Thanks Michelle I didn't really understand the advanced profile kit. Wasn't able to find any documentation about using content profile with apk.
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Well, it's listed on http://drupal.org/node/517182 . Not sure what sort of documentation you were looking for?
Michelle
Never mind was able to find
Never mind was able to find it. I apologize for that.
It's ok
APK is still in development so the docs are as well. I'm always interested in suggestions to improve them.
Michelle
I do have one question. How
I do have one question. How would one go about adding the content from content profile into a particular region?
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Both individual CCK fields and fieldgroups are available as content types in the variant.
Michelle
Multiple Profiles with APK
Hopefully Michelle or someone extremely brilliant can answer my simple question. I'm new to Drupal (6 months old) and I've downloaded all the modules asked except user relationships and facebook style status modules. I'm trying to figure out how to assign a path for the autoassign role module with APK as the "Panel: APK- User Profile" doesn't have a path to it. How can I add a path to this panel so I can add that path to the autoassign role module? I'm assuming I can clone that panel for the other user profile role's. If the answer is create a new panel and add the functions of the APK module to that panel than I think I will run into the same problem others are faced with because it gives an error like this:
Unable to complete operation. Fatal error in /sites/all/modules/ctools/includes/context.inc on line 137: Call to undefined method stdClass::is_type()
Whenever I'm importing the included User Profile Node Type "uprofile" to the site, it comes up with that error when creating a new panel. There was a quick fix given for this error on http://drupal.org/node/776384 which I will try if I know that I need to create a new Panel to add APK functions and don't have to use the given "Panel: APK- User Profile" panel.
Thanks for any and all your help, time, and patience with this question.
PS: Thank you Michelle for creating such a great module!
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APK takes over the user/N system page so you can't change the path of that. You can make a custom page at any path you want and add the same stuff that APK adds to the user page there as well.
Michelle
Creating a user profile
Michelle/Drupalers,
If you can help with the next step. I've downloaded and set up APK and have the content type "User Profile" as well as the fields associated with it set up. I've downloaded two books and read them through quickly but didn't find anything in there about it. My problem is how do I set up multiple profiles for different users. Do I create a content type for each user? If so, how do I add panels and APK to that content type? Or when I create a panel I go to admin/build/pages and click on the new page I've created that has APK and content profile on it. It shows up on the registration page but none of the information appears (I'm using Autoassign role and have it set to the specific user page paths) and it doesn't have a submit button to create a new user. I've changed the visibility rule to allow it to show up but still nothing appears. Can anyone help me with the next step or send me to a place that has documentation on it? I've been on http://drupal.org/node/532558 which is a GREAT tutorial but it doesn't touch upon this aspect.
Thanks in advance for any and all of your help and time!
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This is getting to be a very involved question and really nothing to do with APK. I can give you a few pointers, but you're going to need to do some digging to follow up.
1) You can make a content type for each type of user content you want to store if it's going to be different for each user. That is, if you have artists and musicians on your site and want to have completely different info for each, make two content types. If you have the same info but just different sections, use fieldgroups.
2) Each of these content types can be marked as a content profile type.
3) In Page Manager, on the "user view" page, you make one variant for each type of profile page. You then use the access rules to set which to use based on the role of the user being viewed.
You really don't need APK for this at all. For this level of customization, you might as well just use Page Manager directly rather than going through APK. APK is a toolset that builds on top of Page Manager and Views and CCK but you can just use them directly if you don't need the extra stuff APK gives you.
Hope that helps,
Michelle
Thank You
Thank you very much for the answer, it actually helps a great deal. I will most likely do some more digging as you advised.