[Building Sakai] User Account : Custom Fields

[Venkata Surreddy]

Hi Steve,

Many thanks for the quick reply and clarifying our questions. I am happy
to know that there is some initiation regarding this feature. Presently we
are working on in house priorities. I will let you know once we have free
room and take your guidance.

Sincerely,
Venkata Surreddy

> 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
>
>