Createdby and extended user fields

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ironlion Reply #1, 12 years, 7 months ago

[[+ createdby: userinfo = `extended`]]

returns 'Array'. This array should be located field, which I need to withdraw. Question: how to get this field?

Thank you. Forgive sorry if the question is stupid.

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BobRay Reply #2, 12 years, 7 months ago

Is that tag in a Tpl chunk, or in the page content?

If in a Tpl chunk, try this:

[[+createdby:userinfo=`username`]]

If it's in the page content, try this:

[[*createdby:userinfo=`username`]]

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ironlion Reply #3, 12 years, 6 months ago

Sorry for the long answer.

The question is to get the extra user field using this design.

[[+ Createdby: userinfo = `extended`]] / / prints "Array".

How to access elements of Arran?

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BobRay Reply #4, 12 years, 6 months ago

I think the Profile snippet will do what you want. It will set placeholders for all the fields in the profile, so in your page, do this:

[[!Profile? &user=`[[*createdby]]` ]]

Username: [[+username]]
Email: [[+email]]
// etc.

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ironlion Reply #5, 12 years, 6 months ago

This is the method I use, but in this case there are problems associated with the cache. When a cyclical output's structures (eg, getPaga or getResousces) shows the same value. For example, in deriving the comments QuiP, author of the comment everywhere meaning one and the same user (probably the first or last iteration of the loop values).

[[!Profile?
                &user=`[[+authorName]]`
                &prefix=`usr.`
]]
<span class="quip-comment-author">[[+usr.charactername]]:</span><br />
<span class="quip-comment-createdon"><a href="[[+url]]">[[+createdon]]</a>

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BobRay Reply #6, 12 years, 6 months ago

Profile wants a username or an ID for the &user property. Unless the the authorName placeholder is set to one of those at the time when the Profile tag executes, you're not sending anything for that property, in which case Profile uses the current user (you).

If it is being set, this might help:

&user=`[[!+authorName]]`

That should make that placeholder uncached.

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ironlion Reply #7, 12 years, 6 months ago

Unfortunately, [[!+AuthorName]] produces no output.

I think the problem with caching is a snippet Profile, as [[+authorName]] in a series of shows without duplication. So I decided to ask here about an alternative way to derive additional fields the user.