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Member Profile Administration

The idea behind this module is to add extra attributes to member accounts (a couple were shown in the member administration section of the manual) so more information can be gathered about your users. Click on "Member Profile Administration" in the "Admin Suite" to be taken to the window shown below.

Define/Edit Member Profile Template

To add a new attribute to the member profile, type the name of the new attribute into the "Attribute Name" text field, then select the "Attribute Type" from the pull-down list and click on "Submit". Once created, an attribute will appear on attribute list. The "Sort Order" is an integer that specifies the order in which the attributes will be listed (in ascending order). The "Mandatory" check box is for if you want to make this attribute mandatory for a user to fill out when they are creating there member account. The "Display" check box specifies whether or not you want this attribute value displayed when people view member profiles. After you change any of these values make sure to click "Update" and if you want to remove this attribute, click on the "Delete" button to the right of the attribute.

Finally, we have the "Add Value" button (this button only applies to radio button, dropdown list and checkbox attributes). If you click on this button a pop-up window will appear that will allow you to specify another value for a user to choose from when they are picking there attribute value. In the pop-up window you should type in the name of the value as well as the sort order, which will affect which order the options are displayed in (the option with the lowest sort order will be the default value). After this new value have been added to the attribute you can change it's sort order by typing a new integer into the text box and clicking its "Update" button.

When you are done adding attributes to your member profile, click on "Member Profile Suite" to return to the main member profile menu.

View Member Profiles

The is not really any functionality in this section; it's just a tool for viewing member profiles. The first thing in this window is an "Alphabet Filter" which allows you to jump to members whose names start with a certain letter. Below this there is a list of members that meet the specifications the link on the alpha filter that you selected. Listed is the members integer "ID", name, e-mail address, "Membership Date" (when member account was created), "Profile Date" (when the user filled out the profile part of their member account) and "Last Log On", which gives the date that member last logged into your site.

If you would like to view the detailed attributes of a member's profile, you can do so clicking on the "View" button associated with that member, which will display the window shown below.

From here you can view the member's profile attributes and send site mail, which sends a private message to the member that they will receive the next time they log in. The other information that this window displays, if it is available, is a listing of all posts on your site that have been made with this member account. You can also adjust approval status and view each of these posts. If you would like to view other member profiles you can click on "Member Profiles" to return to the list of members or you can click on "Member Profile Suite" to return the main member profiles menu.

Dump Profiles

This function of the module creates a plain text file, with tab delimited columns, listing of all the members and their profile information. You can save this text file to disk and open it will a spreadsheet program like Exel and it will walk you through a short process that will leave you with a properly formatted spreadsheet.

Note: this function does not remove the member profile entries for your site.

When you are finished viewing/saving this file, click on your browser's "Back" button to return to "Admin Suite".

Configure Marketplace (High Volume) Contribution List

The idea behind this area of the module is to format the columns for the listing of Marketplace submissions a member has made. This listing appears when people view a member's profile. Choose a category from the window shown above and click on it's "Settings" button to be directed to the window shown below.

From this window you can either set the category display to the default setting by selecting "Yes" for "Use Default Formatting". If you choose "No" however, you must fill in the rest of the form. The first option is a pull-down list that allows you to copy the display settings from another category to this one. To do this, select the category from the pull-down list and click on "Submit" at the bottom of the page.

If you would like to create a new set of display settings then you should select which values you want to show in each of the columns using the column pull-down lists (only 1 and 10 can have thumbnails as there value). Next you should type in the headers of these categories in the text box associated with the columns that are displaying values. Finally, you have to set the width for each column in the approriate "Width" numeric text box. These values should be entered as percents and should all total to 100. Once you have finished specifying your columns, don't forget to click "Submit"!!!

If at any point you decide to start this submisson over, you can do so by clicking on the "Reset" button, which will return all the fields (to their saved values) in the window.

The idea behind this window is to make changes to the format of the member profile pages. If you need to make any changes, click on the appropriate "Edit" button, which will take you to the window shown below.

The two options (page name and title image) are for naming your page and you should choose one of them.

If you prefer to have an image for the title instead of the text for the page, you can click on the "Browse" button and choose an image from your hard drive.

Note that a title image replaces the "Page Name" in the page content, but not on the window title.

Next you need to type your "Meta tags".

What is a Meta Tag?

"Area Content" is the next option. This is the basic text that appears in the page you have selected.

Finally, if you are familiar with HTML you can select "Yes" for the "Allow HTML" option. This allows you to enter HTML code in this page’s text fields. If you don't want to put in HTML then select "No" and your text will be properly formatted.

When you entered all your information, don't forget to click submit!!!!!

Once you are done changing the page setup you can either click on "Page List" to edit the page setup of the other pages in this module or you can click on "Member Profiles" to return to the main members profile administration menu or click on "Admin Suite" if you are finished administrating profiles.