Accessing extended fields (Revo user management)

Hi guys - I can access information about the user using filters (in Revo) such as [[++userId:userinfo=`email`]] -- how would I access information entered as ’extended fields’ on a user?

For example, I created an extended field called ’test’ with some value - it is included in the database under the ’extended’ field as {"test":"If this shows, win!"}

And I guess, as an extended question, how is the best way to approach creating a set of extended fields that apply to a particular group of users? So, I create a new user in the manager, select a user group, and am presented with extra fields to complete (or some other way that achieves the same thing)

Thanks!

One way for now would be to simply set those as placeholders in a Snippet, e.g.

Then you can reference it as:

...in your content.

Thanks for the reply Jason!

Apologies in advance for what is probably a newbie mistake, but putting that snippet on the page (I called it GetExtendedFields) gives me the following error when I view the resource:

Fatal error: Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /path/to/revo/core/cache/elements/modsnippet/21.include.cache.php on line 7

I tried calling it cached and uncached.

What have I missed?

Try this:

My code was assuming you had already loaded the Profile; sorry for the confusion.

Thanks to you both, it works a treat!

Everything you’ve said makes sense, but I am not sure why I am not getting anything thing returned when I do this:



Data stored as:

Quote from: keiron77 at Oct 25, 2010, 08:48 AM

$profile = $user->getOne('Profile');
$profile->get('phone'); // WORKS
$profile->get('Company') // Doesn't work although I do have an extended field saved as 'Company'

Data stored as:

{"Region":"Asia Pacific","Company":"My Company"}

That’s not how it works. You need to get() the extended field and then get the attributes from it, e.g.

The "extended" field is stored in the database as JSON and returned by the get() function as a PHP array.

I thought there was a step I was missing out.

Saying "The ’extended’ field is stored in the database as JSON and returned by the get() function as a PHP array.", actually makes it really obvious now.

Cheers

I am trying to manually create user extended fields under the dozen users I have.

I click on add attribute and fill out the form and then hit save, but nothing saves the form remains. Is there something I need to turn on?