Show Explanation or submission guidelines

I just encountered this same problem with nodeprofile. As a workaround, I added an empty fieldset at the top of the form, with my submission guidelines as the fieldset help text. Then I set the fieldset to "hidden" on node display so it only shows up on the submission form.

Just came across the same issue on a site I'm making. Here's a patch that adds the help that's set up on the node type edit form.

The patch implements a content_profile_help function which calls node_help with the correct path and node id.

I tried your patch, but it does not seem to solve it. After user clicks the Create your Profile, gets taken to the content profile form, but the guidelines are still not visible. Any ideas Alex?

This patch is for the edit profile edit form that's available when a user edits their account.

What is the url that the Create your Profile going to? If it's node/add/{contenttype} then this patch won't solve the missing guidelines. If you have added some guidelines to the node type edit page for the profile content type and they are missing this is a different issue. My best guess would be that your theme might not be printing $help.

@alexpott: Proper patch should cover all cases: content profile edit form can have different paths

Btw, this is bug report. As user of this module I expect all node features to work with content profile.

Slightly better function without regexps. It should work for all cases.

  function content_profile_help($path, $arg) {  
    if (arg(0) != 'user' || !is_numeric(arg(1))) {
      return;
    }
    
    if (arg(2) == 'profile' || arg(2) == 'edit') {
      $profile = arg(3);
      if (empty($profile)) {
        return;
      }
      foreach (content_profile_get_types() as $type => $info) {
        if ($profile == $type) {
          $node = content_profile_load($profile, $arg[1]);
          return node_help('node/%/edit', array(1 => $node->nid));    
        }
      }
    }
  }

I decided to use regexp to not make useless calls to content_profile_get_types(), same as in alexpott's patch. This version works both for existing and new nodes.

  function content_profile_help($path, $arg) {
    if (preg_match('/user\/\%\/(profile|edit)\/(.*)/', $path, $matches)) {
      foreach (content_profile_get_types('names') as $type => $typename) {
        if ($type == $matches[2]) {
          $node = content_profile_load($type, $arg[1]);
          if ($node) {
            return node_help('node/%/edit', array(1 => $node->nid));
          }
          else {
            return node_help('node/add/'. $type, array('node', 'add', $type));
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

Patch implementing function above.

P.S. Happy New Year everyone !

Good patch thank you

Thanks, I've committed the patch from #10.