Configuring User Profiles

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 15:58

Lesson Thirteen of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos.

This lesson provides instruction on the configuration of user profiles, including enabling profiles for public viewing and adding custom fields by using the core profile module.

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Submitted by jim (not verified) on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 13:29.

Configuring User Profiles

A specific: You need to add an "Add to Cart" button for "Configuring User Profiles".
In general: good content on the basic set. This has level set my expectations for drupal. Thanks a million.

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 13:34.

I'll be getting an "add to cart" added for this episode soon. Some people had problems with the download so I've disabled it until I make some changes. Thanks for keeping an eye out though. I'm glad you're getting something from the videos.

Submitted by Jaosn (not verified) on Sun, 04/12/2009 - 01:29.

WYSIWYG in the profile

I've gotten everything set up but can't get the rich-text editor on the profile page. Using WYSIWYG API with FCKEditor currently for ease of installation. Any way to get the rich-text editor on this textarea?

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sun, 04/12/2009 - 10:48.

FCKeditor on Profile Pages

You can control the display of the editor on any field via the FCK profile settings. When you're logged in as admin and looking at the field where you want the editor you should see something like "The ID for excluding or including this element is: edit-profile-bio - the path is: user/1/edit/Personal Information" below the field. The edit-profile-bio piece is the one you'll want to remember.

Go to admin/settings/fckeditor, edit the default profile and then adjust the visibility settings. If you're in "include" mode then you'll want to paste "edit-profile-bio" into the "Fields to exclude/include:" field and save the changes.

Submitted by alvin alexander (not verified) on Mon, 08/31/2009 - 22:28.

Thanks!

Thanks for all of your videos. I wouldn't have been able to build my Drupal-based websites without them.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 04/17/2010 - 17:05.

Re: Configuring User Profiles

Hi Rob, Thank U for U;r lessons, I am new to drupal and I wonder how to limit the number of nodes that the user can create. I suppose that I need to use the rules, thank U in advance.

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Tue, 04/20/2010 - 22:45.

Re: Configuring User Profiles

You can try using a module that limits nodes such as http://drupal.org/project/node_limit.

Submitted by sokunthy (not verified) on Mon, 08/30/2010 - 18:46.

Re: Configuring User Profiles

Hi Rob,

Was following your video and i encounted this odd problem. When set the text field to multi textfield, the words in the textfield do not seem to align itself properly. Please see http://www.teamrel.com/drupal/users/petteri
As you can see in the Bio and Teaching area text boxs, any sentences beyound the secound line are pushed all the way to the left. Any solution?

Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sun, 09/05/2010 - 12:51.

Re: Configuring User Profiles

I think that may be a quirk with the theme which appears to be Acquia Marina. You probably want to post the issue and a screenshot over on the issue queue at http://drupal.org/project/acquia_marina.