Hi,
it's not so easy to set up an "Edit Profile Page" for the users. I found this answer on a topic by Lionel, sounds logical - but pretty challenging. When i set up a link to the form and log in as a user, i always get to the registration (form), but not to the content. What i actual want is a profile overview (content) and a link on it (step 4 in the post from Lionel), which leads to the profile modification.
I also set up the search form like described by Lionel and played around, but this did not work for me at all - When i click on the link for the search type, it just list the user names. Maybe i did something wrong. Is there a better tutorial or could someone explain it (for the stupid ones)?
Edit: To recapitulate, here my solution for profile editing in frontend:
1. Go into plugin manager of Joomla Administration and set "enable bridge" in "CCK Storage Location - Joomla! User". New users are now able to view their profile. (Thanks RD)
2. Now follow the guide of Lionel and make sure to set "Limit: 1" in the Search Type configuration.
3. You propably don't want that users can change their name. To show the name only in registration form, go in Users Content Type - Site Form - "4" (Access +-) and set the fields "User Name" and "User Username" to "Guest".
Hello! I also had trouble setting up the user edit profile. Here are my notes:
To have a link to a user profile as you want, you should enable bridge between user object and article which contains the profile of a user.
To enable a bridge, you should:
- click on admin menu link "extensions"
- click on admin menu link "plugin manager"
- filter plugin by the type "cck_storage_location"
- click on plugin "Cck Storage Location - Joomla! User"
- In "basic options" panel, enable the bridge.
Create 'Edit' using freetext
#2 - Link / Markup
FORM
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Content Type (form): Inherited
Edition: Yes Final
Menu Item: [User Profile Page]
Redirection: Auto
Creates a link for the selected field to form then after submit, it returns to the list/previous page
Hope this helps!
Thanks, now i got the profile (need to create a new user, before it works), but i still struggle to link it to the profile ...
1st make sure you have the fields you want shown in the FORM - USER - CONTENT
- Create a LIST for USERS
- Select a field from the CONTENT [i.e. User Name]
- #2
- View
- + [You can leave the default settings]
Now in the User List View you should be able to click on User Name to view the profile.
Double check your permissions.
I find sometimes after making form or list changes, I need to add a new record in order to show the new changes. Log in the mysql and check the table changes as well. Pretty good way to learn.
For example, I don't use LINK anymore for website field as it adds "Link";"www.[website].com" in mySql. Which is not good for importing and exporting raw data. So I setup website url as text. Then in a custom template, I use the html <a href link and render the Value.
Hi RD,
thank you for all the tipps - maybe it would be done by now, if i had more experience in this. ;D
Say, do you have skype? I would also pay 20-30 Euro to get this up - my frustration level is pretty high right now. Contact in Skype: inwebdesign
Skype Wed
Wed?
I got it in the end, the last problem was the one result - i'm an idiot, in the configuration tab of the search type "Limit: 1" and everything worked fine. :) Thanks again, you helped me a lot with the plugin tip to show up the profile!
Glad you got it all worked out!
