Hope I can explain this OK. If not, I can try again...
I am using content profile, cck, views 2 for a university site. I need to present subsets of the users and fields in a variety of ways on different parts of the site. I have set up one content profile with all the fields I need for all users, even though some of the users won't be using all of the fields I've created. So, for one user listed in the content profile I have a long bio, a brief bio, two small photos, one larger photo, research focus multi-line field and more. To give you an example: on one page, I need to list the steering committee faculty with one of the small photos and the brief bio; this page also needs to list three staff people. In another section, I need to list all water faculty, including steering committee, with a small photo and the research interests.
I have been thinking that I could do all of this one just one profile content type, VIEWS and either taxonomy or roles to "filter" one group from the other.
Maybe I am doing too much reading. I am starting to think that my profile content type should not be housing all and every bit of info about each person -- and that instead, I should put thinks like the images or long profile into a separate content type and then pull em together with references.
Confused. Is the path I am on OK????
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You can have multiple profile types when using content_profiles-- if it were me, I would just create different content types for the different types of users and then set them to be content_profiles. In combination with the autoassignrole module you can have different links and registrations for the different types of users. Very slick.
It's unlikely that majority
It's unlikely that majority of users will actually register -- I'm actually doing it for 'em. Out of about 50 folks, I project that only the director, admin assistant and a few on the steering committee will log in and work with copy. I know I can have multiple profiles but I'm wondering, in this use case, why? Is there a performance issue? Something down the road I am not anticipating.
I'm already running into a hitch with the multiple images
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I have no clue about the performance implications-- i'm just nitpicky about keeping the data model logical. But that's me-- ymmv. Do whatever works.
It's unlikely that majority
It's unlikely that majority of users will actually register -- I'm actually doing it for 'em. Out of about 50 folks, I project that only the director, admin assistant and a few on the steering committee will log in and work with copy. I know I can have multiple profiles but I'm wondering, in this use case, why? Is there a performance issue? Something down the road I am not anticipating.