[Building Sakai] User Account : Custom Fields

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Venkata,

There is no ability to do what you want in 2.7.0. It sounds like the best solution for this is an extension to Profile2 to add this configurability, and in fact, this is planned. If you have any resources to commit to some development, I can certainly work with you to make this happen, as the ideas are there waiting to be implemented. It may require 2-4 weeks work commitment.

http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PRFL-230
http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PRFL-390

cheers,
Steve

On 19/07/2010, at 5:07 PM, Venkata Surreddy wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> We are new to Sakai environment and working on user account customization.
> For this purpose we already explored existing user account, profile and
> profile2 features. These tools have fixed fields and meeting some of our
> requirements. We need couple of other fields to grab user data. Also in
> future there might be a chance to require more fields to integrate into
> user account. Ideally we need a component/feature that allow Admin user to
> add custom fields -- textbox, textarea, checkbox... -- and made them
> available to users. Is this type of feature available in Sakai 2.7.0?
> Please let us know your views/thoughts.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Venkata Surreddy