problem with user photo

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NaDann92's picture

Hello OA community,

I started with OA at the beginning of April and it is the first time I am trying to set up a site or an intranet. So far I discovered many features and the development was going surprisingly smooth until yesterday. I wanted to add pictures and a user description field to the users. After many hours of trying by myself, with OA documentation, Drupal documentation and various hints on the internet, I am no closer to solve my problem.

I activated photos in my theme and in the other admin configurations. I also activated the field in the form for adding a user. But either way it is not showing. The users can not upload a new picture and it is not showing in the form. Also the directory "pictures" is not available.

I would be very happy if you could point out what I did wrong. Thank you for reading this and thanks in advance for your help.

Danni

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you can create custom user

wildflower_0001's picture

you can create custom user fields from here: /admin/config/people/accounts/fields

To arrange how you want things to display you need to go here: admin/structure/pages/edit/page-user_actitivy and set up your layout and add the new fields to the locations you want them to go.

Hello wildflower_0001, thanks

NaDann92's picture

Hello wildflower_0001,

thanks for your reply. I placed the fields as you suggested, but they are still not showing. The user picture is only shown when I set a default picture. But there is no way to edit this and the user description field is completely missing.

Two types of user view

bas123's picture

There are two types of user (member) views.

One when the logged in member clicks on their own "Dashboard", they are take to:
/user/1/view , /user/2/view , /user/245/view whatever order they joined.

When you 'edit' your profile, all newly created fields are available to be placed wherever you choose within a chosen panel, and thus I have been able to customize that "Dashboard" view HOWEVER, I (the user/member) can ONLY see that view whith the added fields!

When you click on a member's name (including your own), you are taken to a different view of that member:
/users/joe-brown , /users/wild-flower , /users/danni-jones , etc.
However that view ONLY contains the Default fields and I cannot figure out a way to make that a standard template view.

For my case, I wish to make that look the same as the dashboard, so other members can see the fields I have created in the profile pages such as "Job Title", "Additional Photo(s)", "Home Page", "Personal Video Presentation", "Previous Employer 1", "Previous Employer 2", Etc.

Ideally, I would like to present much of that information divided into tabs on the Profile Page, but I know that is another issue!

Thanks

Open Atrium

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