Originally posted this on an old post (about a year old) and thought I'd re-post as it's own topic since it's not really about the previous topic

I'm trying to make this work in AS 1.9.3 and AF 4.3 and no matter what I do the PostInfo template just shows: Private

Here is what I've done:

Created a new profile property called Badge.
It's of type image and visibility is set to All Users From the AS CP updates it to "read only"
From the user manager (not AS edit profile) added an image to those new field for my admin account
Modified the PostInfo template in AF to include [DNN:Profile:Badge]

To make sure it wasn't an "image" thing...I repeated the steps for a new profile property called "level". Same steps only this was a text field. Same results....just shows Private in the forum below the other PostInfo stuff What am I missing here?

Here is my PostInfo template

[AF:PROFILE:AVATAR]
[AF:PROFILE:DISPLAYNAME][AF:PROFILE:USERSTATUS]
[AF:PROFILE:USERCAPTION]
[AF:PROFILE:RANKDISPLAY]
[AF:PROFILE:RANKNAME]
[AF:PROFILE:PMLINK]
Posts:[AF:PROFILE:POSTCOUNT]
[MODIPADDRESS]

[DNN:PROFILE:BADGE]
[DNN:PROFILE:LEVEL]
[DNN:PROFILE:POSTALCODE]

Active Forums doesn't know anything about Active Social profile settings. It only looks at what DNN has set.

Yep, I get that. These are DNN profile settings. I was following your advice from this previous post: http://www.activemodules.com/active...site-roles related to showing a badge in the postinfo section of the forum.

Again, here is what I did:

1. Create a new DNN profile field called "Badge" type "Image" set to "All Users".
2. Uploaded an image to my profile through DNN User Manager
3. Added [DNN:PROFILE:BADGE] to PostInfo template in AF

(I repeated this with a simple text value called "level" jsut to remove any issues with images.

In both cases they show the word Private, in italics in PostInfo.

Am I missing a step or has something changed?

I am seeing the same thing as you Steven.

I have tried just about everything, it's possible that something changed with the PostInfo template, but I am not sure what.

The word "private" would only appear if the field wasn't visible. What is the visibility setting for the profile field set by the user? I know you set the default to All Users, but that might not apply to accounts created before you created that field.

I can safely say nothing has changed in the DNN Profile parsing in Active Forums for a couple of years. I'll have to do some digging on this one.

I'm testing with a Text property and on the DNN manage profile page, the radio button next to Public is selected.

I have a couple thing to add that are not directly helpful but:
- Sometimes you need to restart the application from the host settings menu or otherwise clear the cache to see changes you have made to the PostInfo template.
- The token is formatted like [DNN:PROFILE:ProfileProperty] and is case sensitive.
- The example Will used before was a text property containing html to load the image, instead of using the image profile property type. Not sure if there is a performance benefit, but it does save you from uploading pictures for every user.


edit: changed Visible to Public

Good point. Active Forums will treat all profile properties as plain text.

I tried the app restart too.  I was concerned about the image type so I also tested with a text value called "Level".  Same results however.

Here are some screenshots to help document things.

PS - I was going to insert these into the post but it seems like the insert image and the new telerik editor might not like each other. 

You might notice the postal code displays in PostInfo. So this has something to do with NEW profile property not getting permissions set correctly. Open to all ideas.

Also, will you mentioned that adding a new property might be set to All Users but existing accounts won't have permissions set. This represents a big UX issue for admins...as adding a new profile for All Users won't display any permissions setting on an AS profile. So there is no way to change these. Additionally, for a hidden field, like a badge (text link to a badge) I don't want the users to even know about it as the badge assignment might occur through some other process (payment, subscription, etc).

Just to be sure I set it to User Pref and went into my AS profile and updated it to All Users. Still showing Private on PostInfo.

Lastly, this is a localhost clean install of DNN 5.6.2 with AF 1.9.3 and AF 4.3.5

Take a look at this thread...
http://www.activemodules.com/active...ons/#70046

I changed the postinfo template to display our Badge profile property. You can see it says "Badge Goes Here". I followed the same steps as I have done before. We are running DNN 5.6.1, but I'm not sure if that makes a difference.

Will...was the Badge profile property already there or was it one you just added now?

Ok, something has definitely changed with the security access on those profile properties with the Core API. It was working for my profile until I updated my profile from within DNN. Now it says "private" here too. This goes back to my original theory about the way the default value is being applied. This will take some time to debug. I'll see if we can come up with a sql fix.

It has been there for awhile and now that I've made changes it stopped working. It was definitely created prior to DNN 5.6.

Thanks Will!

For what its worth, all this profile confusion between products and core will be resolved with the new forum module and DNN 6.1.

Do you think this will make it into the upcoming patch release for AF? I'm anxious to get this functioning again for a project I'm working on.

I was having this same issue a few months back.

I couldnt figure it out, and decided to remove the entire section in the postinfo.

I wanted to simply show where users were located, etc... But every time I added it in, it said PRIVATE.

What was strange, was it didnt happen to everyone. Only some people.

When you were logged in, for some it showed the location, then you would log in, and it would show private, so it was really really strange.

All in all, it was removed, and I just waited until there was a fixed solution, which it seems to be getting worked out now.

I believe this is resolved in the upcoming AF patch release.

Has this been resolved?

Adam, I've beta tested 4.3.6 and it is resolved. Not sure when Will plans to release that patch.

Thanks Steven, I want to start utilizing the profile section once again. I just removed it months ago, because things broke.

Steven,

I have the latest version installed 4.3.7 AF and I am still getting users showing PRIVATE even though the profile field is set to EVERYONE.

If you view the members list, I can see all of there [CITY] locations, which is what I am trying to pull into the AF PROFILE templates on each users AF posts.

Has something happened from 4.3.6 to 4.3.7 which caused it to revert back to not showing it correctly?

The only other thing I can think of, is that within the database, each users security for that profile setting is still set restricted, and the new version of AF is not really modifying that existing setting, and only setting this to newly joined members, and not the old members before AF 4.3.7 was installed.

Can anyone tell me if AF 4.3.7 is working correctly with displaying profile fields within the AF PROFILE templates?

Adam,
I think you are right about the previous settings. Ben can email you a SQL script to run...cleared it up for me recently. I just can't find the script at the moment.

Steven

Thanks Steven. Sent Ben a PM to ask about the script. I believed it had to do with only previous ID's settings, but its also with new members.
Some of the users show the CITY, and some show PRIVATE still. Its hit or miss.

Did I email that script to you Steven? I don't really remember it. I do remember this issue and being able to reproduce it.

If you run this script, it will set the values correctly.

UPDATE UserProfile SET Visibility = '1' WHERE PropertyDefinitionId = '27'

Visibility values are:

0: Public

1: Members only

2: Admin only

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Reference: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources...age/1.aspx

- I tried to make the profile setting to 0 for everyone to view, but it was still showing PRIVATE, so I think there is a bug with DNN.

I have it set to 1, so atleast logged in members, can view where people are coming from.

Thanks Ben for the added support!