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How to configure the Profile Extender (2.1b1)?

MasterOneMasterOne ✭✭
in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

I am not quite sure on how to configure the profile extender:

  • What is "Hide Fields" supposed to do?

  • How can "Custom Information -> Label / Value" be removed from the Edit Profile page (if I don't want anybody to be able to add custom info; or am I mistaken and this option is only available because I am logged in as administrator?)?

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  • hgtonighthgtonight MVP

    Hide fields lets you hide fields that are in by default.

    You see it on every profile because you have the Plugins.ProfileExtender.Add permission.

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  • MasterOneMasterOne ✭✭

    @hgtonight said:
    Hide fields lets you hide fields that are in by default.

    But the default profile only has the following fields:

    • Username
    • Email
    • Allow other members to see your email?
    • Gender

    I guess it would not make any sense to hide any of these, but just in case, how do you know what to put into the "Hide Fields" box? For example I tried "Gender", but nothing happened.

    @hgtonight said:
    You see it on every profile because you have the Plugins.ProfileExtender.Add permission.

    That's strange, because I am only in the Administrator group, and Plugins >> ProfileExtender >> Add is not set. Or do the role settings for Administrator not matter because the admin has all permissions anyway?

  • hgtonighthgtonight MVP

    I will have to look into the hidden fields later (no access to a beta right now).

    The original admin always has all permissions.

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  • MasterOneMasterOne ✭✭
    edited May 2013

    @hgtonight

    I guess you didn't have a chance to look at those hidden fields yet. I played around with that input field some more, but didn't find out how it's supposed to work, because whatever I enter nothing happened (and I'm too tired now to take a look at the code, which probably does not reveal anything to my untrained eyes anyway).

  • hgtonighthgtonight MVP

    I actually forgot about this thread. :D

    Labels in the hide fields box will not be displayed on user profiles unless you have the right permissions (Which appears to be the generic 'Garden.Settings.Manage' admin powers).

    I can see this being helpful in requiring something for registration but not showing it on the profile to everyone.

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