User Account Fields
10 posts by 4 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: November 8, 2010 (RSS)
By (Deleted User) - November 4, 2010 - edited: November 4, 2010
Is it possible to do the following:
I've setup various fields for my user account, i.e. name, email, facebook url, etc. What I want to do is somehow use those fields automatically when I upload an article, e.g. instead of me having to type my name as the author of the article it should pull it from my user account automatically, etc. I just don't want have to keep filling in fields over and over when uploading.
What I would also like to do is have the option of editing the field when uploading should I not wish to use the information that is pulled from my user account profile. So it should basically pull the information from the user account fields and put in the textfield, etc. but still allow the user the ability to change it.
Let me know if you don't understand my request and I'll try explain a bit more in detail.
Kind regards
Shawn
Re: [smesa] User Account Fields
The information in these posts might help get you started...
http://www.interactivetools.com/iforum/Products_C2/CMS_Builder_F35/Showing_Author_on_List_Page_P75695
Good Luck,
Jerry Kornbluth
Take advantage of a free 3 month trial subscription, only for CMSB users, at: http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com/trial.php
Re: [gkornbluth] User Account Fields
By (Deleted User) - November 4, 2010
So when a user uploads an article he wouldn't have to populate certain details that he would have already uploaded when he created his account.
Is this possible?
Re: [smesa] User Account Fields
Take advantage of a free 3 month trial subscription, only for CMSB users, at: http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com/trial.php
Re: [gkornbluth] User Account Fields
By (Deleted User) - November 4, 2010
1. User creates account and fills in various fields. In my example the Facebook field.
2. I want that Facebook link to automatically be set as the default value for Facebook field on the news section editor.
3. And finally, if it is setup as the default value then it should show up when the user adds an article on the upload page.
Hope this makes sense.
Shawn
Re: [smesa] User Account Fields
I think I see what you're looking for.
I'm assuming that you want the user to have the ability to change values they see.
In many of the posts that I've looked at regarding user input in the membership plugin, the suggestion was to create a form for user input to various sections.
There are some general ideas in the readme for the plugin and the sample files, and some specific recipes that show how to do this in my CMSB Cookbook http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com
This might be an approach that will work for you since the existing field values show up in the form fields and can be updated by the user when appropriate.
Hope that's more of what you're looking for.
Jerry Kornbluth
Take advantage of a free 3 month trial subscription, only for CMSB users, at: http://www.thecmsbcookbook.com/trial.php
Re: [gkornbluth] User Account Fields
By Chris - November 4, 2010 - edited: November 4, 2010
You can enter PHP code into Default Value. Try this:
Default Value: <?php echo $CURRENT_USER['facebook']; ?>Does that help?
Chris
Re: [chris] User Account Fields
By (Deleted User) - November 5, 2010
It makes things so much easier for users who don't want to keep filling in the same fields over and over but still gives them the ability to edit the field should they want to insert different information.
I'm having so much fun with CMS builder. I still need to purhase the membership plugin which I will be doing really soon.
Thanks guys!
Re: [smesa] User Account Fields
By (Deleted User) - November 7, 2010
Just curious if it's possible to do the same thing with the upload field? Doesn't seem to give a default value option.
Shawn
Re: [smesa] User Account Fields
By Jason - November 8, 2010
The website membership plugin doesn't load any upload fields to the $CURRENT_USER variable. So, to get an upload field you'll need to use the getRecords function to select the record for that user. You can get the userNumber like this:
$CURRENT_USER['num']
Hope this helps.
Jason Sauchuk - Project Manager
interactivetools.com
Hire me! Save time by getting our experts to help with your project.
http://www.interactivetools.com/consulting/