profile

I have been involved with creating several Drupal-based alumni websites. One of the most requested feature, by clients, is an alumni directory; a tabular listing of all registered alumni with links to the alumni's profile(s).

Below is a basic how to implemented an alumni directory using contributed modules. This howto is based on Drupal 5.x, however, you can use the same approach with Drupal 4.7.x.
I hope this is helpful for others who are building Drupal-based alumni websites.

Hello again :)

I´ve managed to create profiles nodes and attached them to several users on my demo installation. It was easier that I realize at the beggining (thank to your help guys!!). But this way, people have two profiles, and that´s pretty confusing, because they will have to edit both when they want to change, ie. their email or telephone number.
I know that thare´s a way to change the "original" profile link for the new profile_node, but what if I don´t want all users to be allowed to create their "new" node_profile?

Hi there!
I´ve been searching the forums for a while, and I´m sincerely lost about this issue.

I came to realize that there´s NO WAY to add taxonomy terms to the simple, yet easy, core module "profile".

So, I´ve installed the nodeprofile module. It needs the nodefamily to run, and it suggests you to install the usernode module.
I´ve done all that, and I´ve readed the readme files of all of them.

And yet, I´m clueless about how to replace the profile with all this confusing stuff. I´ve installed three modules already to replace one.

If like me you are not new to PHP, Web development or CMSs but new to Drupal and hoping to build a website with complex user profiles you may be looking for that killer link that documents putting modules like nodeprofile and usernode through their paces.

Does anyone know the URL of that tutorial, or anything even remotely like it?

Thanks in advance :-)

zzJames

I've been thinking about how to do hCards. I built a small example version which I commited to the CVS. It builds up the XHTML using JavaScript and works well as an example, but is very bulky and I can see it becoming very limited.

I'm thinking a better option may be to use the existing Profiles module to build hCards. With Profiles, you can create custom profile fields, and my idea is to build a custom hCard module that takes these fields and allows you to map them to defined hCard fields (i.e. profile-firstname = given-name, profile-company = org, etc) which this module then outputs in the correct format.

Hi everybody,

While making my research about Drupal profile solutions, I was pointed to the following site:
http://www.goingon.com

I was shocked after surfing the site. This site is powered by Drupal and it's amazing! WOW!!!

I want that our BB project will have such full featured profile like in goingon.com. Does anyone have any clue which profile module this site is using? What are the other modules of that site?

Thanks and have a nice day.

One of the most important and difficult parts of building a site is theming the integrated module output. If distributions are required to support all core themes, then designers will have to ensure that their integrated contributed modules will work with all core themes. This is too difficult. Profile and distribution designers should have the option to included fewer themes in their distribution.

Designers will want to focus on the user experience of their distributions and not on the laborious task of systems integration.

Kieran

It will likely be important to replicate the old profile.module functionality for clicking on a profile value to search for all of the other profiles that match that field. Obviously this doesn't make sense for long text fields but it does for any shorter text fields (favorite book=>'Old Yeller' ,) and for many other field widgets.

Could this be done using views or would it be much better to do in cck, or in cck output widgets?

IMHO: it should likely be done in cck, but not in the widgets.

If response dictates I can take this discussion to the cck group.

I added some custom profile fields in your account weeks ago now. There are two sections, business and personal. Below is a list of fields.

Business
* Organization (text)
* Organization website (URL)
* Organization profile (textarea)

Personal
* Real Name (text)
* Website (URL)
* Birthdate (date)
* About me (textarea) -- like a bio

So...feedback? More fields? Less fields? What should we add or remove?

Some other ideas:
* A "birthday" block would be a lot of fun.
* one of the "user tagging" modules would be great
* this groups site might be the right spot to also run a consultant/developer directory; profile fields could fit into this