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bestsingletravel
@bestsingletravel
9 years ago
34 posts
I am using Ningja (still looking for someone to help customize) - how do I add profile questions when my members sign-up

Then how to do assign the member to a group depending on their answer?
updated by @bestsingletravel: 05/04/15 05:11:33AM
paul
@paul
9 years ago
4,326 posts
When logged in as admin, goto http://yoursite.com/user/signup and click on the Form Designer button top right. From there you can add in 'signup questions'. See https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/documentation/getting-started/1275/using-the-form-designer for how to use the Form Designer.

Presumably you want to assign a new profile to a 'quota' dependent upon an answer? Maybe you could make possible answers to a question the quota description (ACP=> Profiles=> User Profiles=> Tools=> Quota Browser=> Modify Quota) then when signing up, new users would make the choice themselves.


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Strumelia
Strumelia
@strumelia
9 years ago
3,603 posts
Paul, I plan on changing my Ning signup questions AFTER I go live and import all my current ning members into my JR site. I know they will import along with their old ning signup questions and answers showing in their profile sidebar. My question is this- what will happen to those ning questions and answers once I replace the signup questions with new ones? Will the old ones disappear from the profile page sidebars?, or will they remain and the new ones show up only on new signups?


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paul
@paul
9 years ago
4,326 posts
Strumelia:
Paul, I plan on changing my Ning signup questions AFTER I go live and import all my current ning members into my JR site. I know they will import along with their old ning signup questions and answers showing in their profile sidebar. My question is this- what will happen to those ning questions and answers once I replace the signup questions with new ones? Will the old ones disappear from the profile page sidebars?, or will they remain and the new ones show up only on new signups?

It depends on how you do it. Signup questions are keyed on the user datastore as 'user_signup_question_1', 'user_signup_question_2', 'user_signup_question_3' etc. You could overwrite their values with the new questions whereupon when the user answers them the old answer will be overwritten.
It would probably be best to continue the sequence with the new questions and make the old ones in-active in the Form Designer. That way you'll have old questions and answers archived.
hth


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist
Strumelia
Strumelia
@strumelia
9 years ago
3,603 posts
paul:
It would probably be best to continue the sequence with the new questions and make the old ones in-active in the Form Designer. That way you'll have old questions and answers archived.
hth

That makes sense.
So....assuming the older members wouldn't need to (or be asked to) answer any NEW sign-up questions at all, what would then show on the profile page sidebars of the older members imported from ning once I make the old questions inactive? Would their older ning questions and answers disappear and leave nothing in their place on their sidebar?




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Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015
updated by @strumelia: 02/27/15 01:38:59PM
paul
@paul
9 years ago
4,326 posts
I think the smarty call that returns the signup questions and answers returns them all so you likely do some template manipulation to show whatever you want, i.e.. if no answer, don't show. That way you'd get them all regardless.


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bestsingletravel
@bestsingletravel
9 years ago
34 posts
@paul

I have added the profile questions and when I am logged in I see them here - http://matzofun.com/user/signup but when I log out and I click on create an account it takes me to http://matzofun.com/user/signup but none of the questions I added are there
paul
@paul
9 years ago
4,326 posts
Have you entered all the questions using the Form Designer on the signup form - http://www.jamroom.net/ning-to-jamroom/documentation/ning-to-jamroom/2073/step-4-importing-the-ning-archive-to-jamroom => Ning Signup Questions

(Note - Get the latest Core module before doing this - there was a small bug that stopped it working)


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