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ltanner
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Jan 10, 2008 8:40 AM

How to extend information about a user...?

Hi all - early apologies if this has been discussed before - I don't think theres a specific search for Discussions (covered by the main search?) - if this has been covered would someone be a star and direct me please? 

 

On to the question.  The team I am part of uses Clearspace and we're really trying to push the use of it throughout the team spread around the world.  I would like to know how to extend the information that can be stored about eash user, i.e. tags of what technologies they specialise in, or tags of what projects they have been involved with etc - essentially tags that can be used within a search, to help someone find another user that can help them with a specific technology, skill or project.  Hopefully that makes sense.  Ask if it doesn't!!

 

 

 

Is it possible to achieve this simply?  Any pointers on how to best go about it? Many thanks for any help given!!

 

 

 

leon

Tags: plugin, clearspace, clearspace_api, user, custom
ajohnson1200 Jive Employee
ajohnson1200
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Dec 27, 2007 10:02 AM in response to: Leon Taner
Re: How to extend information about a user...?

hi Leon,

 

You should check out your Admin Console --> People --> Settings --> Profile Configuration.  We give you the ability to define custom profile fields, which can be searchable if you want.

 

Cheers,

 

AJ

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Dec 27, 2007 3:38 PM in response to: Aaron Johnson
Re: How to extend information about a user...?

 

Thanks a lot AJ - you're quite correct I didn't catch this option - thanks for pointing it out to me!

 

 

Leon

 

 

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Jan 16, 2008 4:52 PM in response to: Aaron Johnson
Re: How to extend information about a user...?

 

AJ,  is there any way we could get an new HTML field type for profiles like this?  We could use it for embedding Youtube videos, Flickr slideshows, Slideshare presentations and the like.  It would enable our users more freedom in building out their profile.

 

 

 

 

 

What do you think?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ajohnson1200 Jive Employee
ajohnson1200
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Jan 18, 2008 10:56 AM in response to: Dan McCall
Re: How to extend information about a user...?

hey Dan,

 

You could probably do something like that right now by adding a URL field and then in the FTL template view-profile-fields.ftl, add some logic where if the profile field name value is 'youtube' (or whatever you name the field) then you change the way the value is displayed.

 

I like the idea of adding something like this to the product, we'd just have to find a balance between security (we can't allow people willy nilly embed <object ..> tags) and usefulness (how would this be used on the profile pages?).  Also, thanks for the screenshot, how would you envision something like this rendering on the profile page?

 

Cheers,

 

AJ

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