SoC: Test the nodeprofile modules!

Use Case.

Aim: Keep track of children, their classes, their tutors and their parents.
Currently i'm exploiting the 'profile' module to tag children as 'pupil' (checkbox) in some 'class' (listbox).

So i can get list of all pupils /profile/pupil or list of users of class A /profile/class/classA, and from this list i can than get their phonenumbers etc..

Problems.
* Listing is not sortable
* Pupils are defined as users but never really access the site. Only their parents do this. but i'm currently unable to 'attach' a pupil to one/more parents.
* I would like to only define a single contact info block (address + phonenumber) and attach that to the pupil and their parent. [Changing address/phone number should only involve a single change!
* I'm unable to query on all users that are tutors in classA. Profile module only allows filtering on a single variable

So i'm very interested in your module(S) and will surely test it to see if it can solve my problems. I'm even interested in co-developing whenever needed

Hi,

is it or would it be possible to have the different "sections" of profiles displayed as tabs similarly to how the actual core profile module does?

IMO is not semantically correct to list the profile node (one time only type) togheter with all the other reusable content-types of a site. Sounds more logic to me to have the profile fields associated and binded with the myprofile (/user) page.

Hi,
I am currently using the regular user profiles module. I am also using the location and gmap modules aswell and want to do user location stuff.
My problem though, is that my User profiles have address/location fields(street, city, state, country fields).
To support user locations the user has to go an enter this information again in user location tab. I want to avoid this. I want the user to enter his location information only once.

I am considering moving to the usernode module that you have developed to solve my problem. I would like to know if it would address the problem.

Here is my solution.
1. I use your modules.
2. Create a content for user profiles through CCK.
3. Enable "node location" support for this content type.

This would mean that when they create the user node they also enter location information that is associated with the node.
Will this mean that the user does not have to provide separate user-location information thrugh a separate tab.

Thanks,
Sarvi

Hi Fago,

I've just started with Drupal a few weeks ago setting it up for a rather small community of PhD students with different profiles for student, staff and alumni and found dealing with the profiles very difficult. I've played around with your new modules to see whether that would be an easier approach. Generally I would say: great!!! That is definitely the right direction. But I have some problems. But first, what I wont to do is the following:

I want a page for each user which contains all his user data, pulling it out of the usernode content type data sets plus the data that are available through the user account (picture, history, blog, etc...)
I have three different kinds of users and each user type is supposed to fill in 2 different usernode content types. All users have to fill in the unsernode type 1 which is personal data. And additionally each group has a seperate usernode content type2 to fill in.

my problems are:

• how do I configure what the node "usernode" displays?
  What I currently get when I click "my usernode" is a page that links to the CCK content types that I've set up and defined as usernode plus a link to the "user page" (the old profile page). I would actually prefer a page that contains the data of the old "user page" plus the data of the CCK usernodes rather than links

• the other problem relates to CCK asking for a title: Imagine I have a usernode content type called personal data. So, when the user clicks "create content/personal data" a page opens that has a field on the top named "title". I understand that each node needs a title. But what is the user supposed to do? Why should he give this page a title? (arguing from a user point of view). So this is confusing. Well, I went back and renamed the title field and turned it into a part of the data set. So now the title field of the usernode type "personal data" is called "name". Now Lets say the user types "john" into the name field. If he then goes back to "My usernode" he finds a link called "john". So that doesn't work either. The title field in this case should be preset to "personal data" but there is no way I can do that.

I hope I made myself clear. Thanks for the great work and for any suggestions

finally got it working. this should be a package instead different modules.
Some ideas to improve...

1. I have created a CCK content type to be as a child of usernode where there is all the information for the user profile ..with some pictures and banners.. and descriptions html fields... and such. But I want this to be only for some specific roles. And for the general user when I go to the usernode I don't want to see the usernode.. just going to the standard user profile view.. is it possible?

2. this is my node.tpl.php... I didn't want to see the usernode containter.. just the cck node.. and the $links of the usernode. so you can add comments to the general usernode.
   

   <?php $children = nodefamily_relation_load($nid); ?>
   <?php
       if ($children){
      foreach ($children as $childnode) {
        print node_view($childnode);
      }
   print $links;
    } else{
   ?>
  <div class="node<?php if ($sticky) { print " sticky"; } ?><?php if (!$status) { print " node-unpublished"; } ?>">
    <?php if ($picture) {
      print $picture;
    }?>
    <?php if ($page == 0) { ?><h2 class="title"><a href="<?php print $node_url?>"><?php print $title?></a></h2><?php };?>
    <span class="submitted"><?php print $submitted?></span>
    <span class="taxonomy"><?php print $terms?></span>
    <div class="content"><?php print $content?></div>
    <?php if ($links) { ?><div class="links">&raquo; <?php print $links?></div><?php }; ?>
  </div>
<?php } ?>

3. It is confusing that you can add comments to the CCK node... (I have disabled them now for that content type) and then the comments also to the usernode.

4. also it is a bit confusing for users if they want to edit the profile... they have to go inside the CCK user entry.. and then Edit. Because if they press edit when seeing the user, they go to edit the usernode instead of the CCK user content. There should be a link .. something like.. "Edit your profile" somewhare in "my account" settings... the problem is how to know which node is that one. I don't know if I am explaining myself very wel...

5.. now I have the problem of customizing the CCK template... with contemplate yes... but maybe the user want to change colours or where the fields go.. but this is not your issue... is a CCK / contemplate issue.. not sure if the template can be changed per specific node but it would be nice.

Thank you very much for this modules!

With the help of your great node profiles and CCK I have been able to set up very detailed user profiles but now I'm facing a new challenge:

My user profile contains three node types (personal data, contact data and research profile). Obviously each user will only fill in one of each node types. At the moment those nodes are presented one after the other on a single page. I will later organize them in tabs. However I want to add another node: each user should be able to upload files, mostly pdfs or Word documents. This means the profile will have the additional node type "files". The problem I face now: how do I present all the files of an individual user in one view fitting to the profile that was called. I know how to produce a view for one specific fixed UID but I don't have a clue how to do that for a dynamic UID. E.g.: When I click on the link to the profile "Peter", I should see all of Peter's profile nodes plus a table view with the files that Peter has uploaded.
Maybe this is simple but I'm not a PHP guy. I've played around with arguments but didn't get it to work. Any ideas?

Axel

Hi Fago,

I tried to access your demo at more.zites.net again but it will not work. I use myusername@drupal.org with my Drupal password and I get the following error message:

Error -503 : Service Temporarily Unavailable

Sorry. Unrecognized username or password

Axel