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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

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Drupal for Education and E-Learning

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Drupal for Education and E-Learning
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Creating an Extended Profile


Now that we have made all of the necessary adjustments to the Profile content type and the Content Profile settings, we are ready to have users populate their profiles.

Users can fill out their profiles by navigating to their profile page, either by clicking on the My Account link or by navigating to http://example.edu/user when they are logged in. If a user has not completed their profile, they will be presented with a link to complete it.

This screenshot is taken from the perspective of the profile owner; that is, this profile is owned by user helen, and this screenshot was taken while the user was logged in as helen.

As shown in the preceding screenshot, the Last name and Birthday fields we created earlier in this chapter are visible. The Create your Profile link is displayed because the user Helen has yet to complete her profile. Clicking the Create your Profile link allows us to fill in the form.

As shown in the preceding screenshot, our profile contains textareas...