User profile improvements

I like the new functionalities a lot.

As for patches, I encountered a problem related to pictures and the file api: Picture's don't display when using private download method..

After the latest cvs update my avatars (now called pictures) disappeared... The patch in the link above solves this.

Dries, can you tell me how I can get hold of this new module? Apologies, I realise you have said it has been committed to the development branch, but how do get to that branch, and once there how do I obtain it?

Thanks very much.

Functionally everything is quite okay, but the UI has a couple of rough edges.

On the profile page, it's not exactly clear what clicking on an item's value does (it brings up a list of all people who have the same settings). It's probably better to unlink the item's value, and put an icon behind/below with some people in it.

When viewing a collection of people based on a selection, it's not at all obvious what's going on. A simple "These are all the people who have X set to Y." line at the top would help I think. The page title should probably also be "User listing - X: Y" rather than just "Y".

I already talked to you about this, and I still think alternating the background colors of rows in the profile fields is a good idea. But I think we should use white/gray rather than the gray/gray we have now (e.g. in the forums).

there is lots to love here. here are my wishes for more ...

- i'd like first name and last name and City fields
- i'd like privatemsg.module or some other way for users to contact me without revealing my email address.
- i'd like a bit more room in the Contributions field
- the Signature field has lots of formatting tips but not the Contributions field. Odd.
- the 'I contributed Drupal modules' bits might look better presented a sa list instead of paragraphs.
- why do we display gender on a page like profile/country/United+States. seems arbitrary. Also, that page will scan better as a table.
- I like the idea of migrating the Services page to this scheme

I like the improvements, for the most part. This will make it much easier for admins to define fields for profiles. However, I have a few suggestions:

• Bring back "private" fields - This existed in the older profile.module. Would it be worth my time to create a patch with this feature, or will this be implemented as part of the hopefully upcoming permissions system?
• Allow browing of all users by going to "profile" page with no trailing attributes - This would eliminate the need for members.module in contribs.
• Perhaps output profiles in a table? - When browsing profiles, the display currently seems a bit run-together. Perhaps placing it in a table would clean up the output.
• I'm left with a slightly unsettled feeling about the change from the term "avatar" to the term "picture." "Picture" is a bit too generic, IMO. If we don't like the term "avatar," that's okay, but I feel we should find something better than "picture."

If you agree with any of these items, let me know, and I'll work on a patch. I'll provide a patch to clean up the typos later today as well. Thanks for your work on this... it'll be one of many improvements in 4.5!

Now, we all know that you only did this because the predominantly male developer population of drupal.org users wanted to know who the female members are (LOL).

But seriously, this is a great way to promote a greater sense of community :)

Hi,

First off I must say these changes are outstanding.

I would have guessed expanding the taxonomy features would be the way to do this, but this seems very suitable. I can't wait until Drupal taxonomies and profile terms can compound search terms. :>

Speaking of the taxonomy, I have been developing a site where each item is subject to many vocabularies. I need a more elegant (DHTML based?) way to display nodes when editing them, otherwise it is quite long. Using multi select elements is also not suitable, because it's too easy to accidentally unselect terms, so I need something with checkboxes & radio buttons. (Another thought is making default display pages editable by anyone who has permission, using form elements and DHTML, but that is really off topic...)

Can anyone give me pointers on how to achieve this? If I have to write it myself, would I need to modify taxonomy.module directly?

Thanks!

David

It is quite usual to have a "Email user" link in profile pages. It would be nice to have this feature. Users could optionally activate/deactive or decide (this is more complex) to get the emails in their mailbox or in a "private messages" place in the site.

And still thinking in the possible FOAF extensions of the personal profiles... :)

It's looking good, Dries. Here's some functionality I would argue for, along with those I've emailed you in the past.

Features/improvements we should have

• Browsability is very much hidden at this stage. In addition to providing a browsable list of all users, a goal of making the hyper-linked profile attributes browsable on one page would be nice. (See also my Search suggestion below)
• Ability to make URL fields linkable. "URL of homepage" should be a link in individual and list pages.
• I agree that the label you get when you click a profile link, e.g. male, location, etc. needs work. Would be most helpful if you clicked something like "Male" and you saw a page label that read, "People who are male." For United States, "People who reside in the United States. Or something like "People who share this description: [insert label here]". I don't know. This is a hard one to label.
• I would argue for the word "photo", but feel that "picture" is fine. Or you can just expand the label to "Photo or avatar" or "Photo or picture of your likeness". Any of the above should work or make it user definable?
• Agree with Moshe that the "I contributed..." links should be a list rather than a paragraph.
• I prefer the plain HTML listing over using a table. A table would restrict the admin's ability to alter the layout of the boxes, e.g. floating them left for a more grid-like appearance. For now, why not add a rule to misc.css for .profile. Could be something at the very least that separates each profile with a line, e.g. .profile {border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd; } Since we don't can't do alternating rows of color in CSS2, why not let the code specify something like .profile-light .profile-dark for alternating odd/even rows so the admin can control the colors from their style sheet?

Features/improvements it would be nice to have (some of which I know you are considering)

• Search interface for profiles: by fields selected by the admin, e.g. by name, interests. This is unlikely to be doable in a single module I'd guess.
• Ability to send private messages.
• Some very basic social networking functionalities, e.g. "make acquaintaince/friend", a page that shows your friends, some tie in to forums? e.g. these are the groups/forums I belong to, FOAF relationship attributes (e.g. this is a friend/acquaintaince, I met this person).

Very nice work to now. I look forward to helping with improvements.

Hello, may be off thread, but will there be some FOAF RDF/XML version of this data stored in the profile?!

I really like these changes Dries, though I am not sure I want a reminder on how much time has passed... just makes me feel older.

As far as the "I contributed" section... it would be super cool if they took the user to those contributions. Here's a scenario, I read an interesting post by 'jondoe' and click to see his profile.. i see that he has contributed a module, to see that module I'll have to do a search for his name and restrict to the modules section.

Cheers,
- Joe

"Talk is silver, patches and mock-ups are gold."
I'll start going for the gold. ;-)

Now that we have an event calendar, a store with shopping cart and payment gateway - Drupal could easily evolve into a real membership system. Take a look at A-member which offers subscriptions etc.
(http://membership.cgi-central.net/scripts/amember/)

Have a club? Events - weekly meetings? Subscriptions to newsletters, workgroups?

Dropping in from Langemarks Cafe.

i like how the attributes are also clickable, and make for easy searchability.

it'd be nice if we all started filling out that field so we could see how it looks when we really fill it up.

one thing i was playing around with, and wondering- would you be able to cross-search? probably not. for example, you couldn't find people who are interested in social+networks and learning? but that's ok!

i can't think of why that would be required. tools like friendster or tribe don't allow for that kind of cross-searching, do they?

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I've tried really hard to find out why only my checkbox type items turn into clickable links on the user page. The list items, the selection items, even the urls remain unclickable. Then, when I click on the ones that are clickable (checkbox-type) and the list view comes up, all the other items become links as well, and the pages they link to exist all right.

Does anyone else have this behavior?

My profile module is updated to current cvs, and the rest of my drupal install was updated at most 2-3 weeks ago.

How *do* you get that direct linking (Belgium, Females, etc) to work?

http: / / my url . com/profile/country/canada gives me a 404, although I do have users registered with "canada" under the country name.

Is there anything else I have to do to to enable this?

Does it only require the profile.module, or are their other I need to modify too?

Thanks alot,

Steve

the user profile options are outstanding, but i have some very basic ideas:

when users add attributes to a profile (through the profiles mod, like adding new locations, languages, religions, business notes, personal data points, whatever) - these items should ideally inherit from the taxonomies within the site - that would unify the content on a drupal site clearly, and make searching within profiles more intuitive (yes, that's an opinion)

also, admins should be able to control who can edit what - meaning that a certain class of user (like supplier, or site blogger, editor, admin etc) can access certain fields (e.g. only bloggers should even see options to describe writing interests or whatever, they shouldn't see stuff that's meant to be profile info for just a 'supplier' and so on)

actually discussing this with some others on thsi site - controlling tabular views of the data, limiting view and display based on fields, etc...i'll let you know how it goes.

this module and this particular effort is outstanding- drupal is a community tool and a cms, so understanding that a drupal site is ONLY is as good as the folks who use it might help people to prioritize accordingly, and understand that making it always the best experience with the best utility for USERS is critical - paramount...admins come second (imho)
-me

i'm looking into adding i18n to the profile module. i guess the right way to do it is using the t() function to output data. i was able to make the field names translatable, but not the description or the category. i'm fairly new to drupal hacking. can you please help me or provide some pointers.

thanks,
pietro.

Is there a reason why you can't add a multi-select list to the profile? I'd find it very useful.

It would be very useful if the custom fields options in the user profile module could include an image upload field (Simular to the one in Flexinode)

Using this multiple images could be added to a users profile. This would be very useful for community applications, dating, and art websites.

Unfourtunately I have no idea how to go about programming this, anyone got any ideas?

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