Profile management

thanks



Let me leave the profile management out for a moment.

I hardcoded some users and access levels (say school, teacher etc)

Now when a certain user access level person adds an article (types are defined) then i want a relation and reverse relation established.

So when the person publishes an article how do i automatically add it to the published news?

For now i created his profile from admin side, and from user side i logged using his profile and added some articles (say articles of reporttype).

In the article of reporttype is a relationfield teacher and in teacherprofile is a reverserelationfield article.

But when the teacher adds report, the field in report should get automatically populated with teacher...

it remains blank...

i am sure i am missing something too easy here

I did try "- Auto-relate submission"

But how to get the particular teacher flexiprofile item id from menu?

not sure.. am bit lost

Hello

please remember,
we don't know all details of your site setup,
-- please use us much as possible the text titles found inside FLEXIcontent maybe quoting them too

So when the person publishes an article how do i automatically add it to the published news?

what is "published news" ?
it is a category ?

But how to get the particular teacher flexiprofile item id from menu?

which menu item is that ?
what type of menu item ?
it is a FLEXIcontent menu item of type "author" ?

NOTE: you do not need to create a menu item to point to every author, instead create a FLEXIcontent field of type select that will display a link to the author's items:

How to create a field that links to author listing view of current item author

thanks
but still lost

let me put it more simply

Teacher has a profile TecherFlexiProfile
Each teacher has only one such profile
Author will be same teacher for own profile

Teacher creates a report using ReportFlexiProfile

I want the report to have a relation field to the teacher
But the field should be automatically populated by teachers teacherflexiprofileid when the report is saved (field not shown to teacher creating report)

how to populate automatically?

Or "select" field is only way?

 
It is very hard to understand what you are asking when you do not use proper terms.

FLEXIcontent does not have articles, profiles, reports, published news, or teachers.

FLEXIcontent does have items, types, authors, and fields.

Please use the proper terms to describe what you are asking so people do not have to try and translate what you are saying in order to guess what you mean.

Thanks.
 

My bad

My apologies!

Will be careful!

Hello

it is just this, the more clear/good description, you make, the more easy it will be to help you

also sometimes due to time constraints, it is difficult for us to spend a lot of time, trying to understand some description, as a result you may not get a good/helpful answer

I have following types:
TeacherType
StudentType
ReportType

I have Following Categories:
TeacherCategory
StudentCategory
ReportCategory

When a user registers, I am creating a SINGLE item of either TeacherType or StudentType and marking it as created by that user (and not by superuser). I am also connecting it to 'Author Description Item' of that user.

A teacher can create any number of item of ReportType.

I want to display reports created by ALL teachers on a page. Which I do by using a FlexiMenu of Category ReportCategory.

However in each item displayed of ReportType I want to display link to the TeacherType Item (as mentioned earlier would have single teachertype item per user who is a teacher) belonging to the teacher who created the report.

This is possible with a relation/ reverse relation field.

If I create a Teacherfield in Type ReportType which is a RELATION Scoped of TYPE (TeacherType) the objective is achieved.

BUT the challenge is that when the Teacher saves the report, how do I automatically save value to the TeacherField field in the

ReportType ITEM being saved? (I will hide the field display in front end)

Or should I use the SELECT type of field only? What should be the SQL in this case?

Please help me with the approach.

Thank a million in anticipation of a response.

Hello

i think i understand you now

1. so every teacher OWNs/has an item of content Type "TeacherType", which is set to be his/her "Author Description Item" (=his/her "profile" details)

2. For every item of Type "ReportType", that teacher creates/owns you want to link to his "description/profile" item, right ?



-- if my above understanding of what you described is correct, then it is best not to create a relation field at ALL, because it is unnecessary duplication of already known/stored information

1. the best would be that FLEXIcontent itself should have a field called,

2. the "User Profile info"
that will link to his/her "author description item" and besides linking, it should also display any other selected fields, e.g. image, etc

3. We must rename the "author description item" to "FLEXIcontent user-profile item"

so is my above understanding of your description correct?
(just this work is planned for v2.2.0 BETA immediately after v2.1.3 final, coming out ASAP)

Regards

Yes the understanding is correct

So I should just hold on for now for the release?

Or it is possible to show the teacher info in report now also?

I can wait a bit if needed..