extended profiles - joomla plugin or otherwise

I need to add extended profile fields. Is there a way to do it without having to install community software? (i.e. Joomsocial or Community builder)

There appears to be no way to add fields to the USER - PROFILE plugin built into Joomla 2.5.4. Will Payplan or AEC allow for them?

I would be interested in this as well. We are looking at using a feature for 'trainers' and 'groups' with different options depending on the user and user groups. I plan to hack into the code a little for this, but it would be nice if there are some standard alterations I can use to ease upgrades and future changes.

Great community by the way, I am a frequent user of Joomla and am now getting into Moodle through Joomdle.

-Shane

At the moment no. The most logical thing to do, without giving it much thought, would be to use joomla groups. That said, this could present some problems because users cannot choose their groups nor can they automatically join different groups. This may or may not be good for you. I have also not really thought about any security / permission problems this may cause. Perhaps if all groups were children of a registration group then permissions may have no issue.

I have thought about using a field in user profiles (ie J2.5) but this would require some work on the user profiles plug-in (which is already done by some other extensions - so should be an easy mod).

Payplans / AEC - not sure off hand about this. Would need to look at it.

VM - perhaps shopper groups? Hikashop I don't think has this.

Finally perhaps a special joomdle profile type configuration under user management.

All that said, one needs to ask why use the profile types? Suppose for example, you had a profile type defined in Joomla's native profile fields extension, how would this be used in Joomla from a moodle integration point of view? If there is nothing taking advantage of this in Joomla, does it matter? Where as with Jomsocial, profile types are integrated into the user data, display of information and access control. So this integration wiht Moodle makes sense.

The point was to add two fields to signup profile: one for TEACHER TYPE(state or federal) and one for GRADE TAUGHT(kinder,1-6, 7-12)

That way Jamoodle would sync these to moodle profile fields as well. Because I'm thinking that even if you add these to moodle, they will never get filled out in the user signs up through Joomla since the payment has to be processed there in order to get access to the course.

OK this should be rather easy to achieve then. I think the second post, talking about groups, threw me.

You can easily use Joomla's built in profiles for this. Joomdle already integrates with this, thus you just need to have the appropriate fields defined in the plugin. There are a few ways to do this, perhaps the easiest at this point would be to use a 3rd party J extension which renames the fields in the joomle plugin. Just to a search in the JEF for profile, you will find one or more there.

Cool, thanks. I looked in the JED but kept running into big bloated things like Community builder and Joomsocial.

True.

Here is one that I have not used.

extensions.joomla.org/extensions/clients...ser-management/19149

It is commercial with no ratings or feedback yet.

I would imagine that there will be many of such extensions popping up soon. Personally, I would just hack the plugin until new apps are built if the one above does not suffice.

Now for the 64 thousand dollar question. Will you be able to map those extended fields to moodle? I would assume if it stored them in the same format as the user profile module does joomdle should pick them up and allow you to map them.