Answered Profile Snippet: Extended Field

I have 2 Member Profile pages: View Profile [[!Profile]] and Edit Profile [[!UpdateProfile]] which use several extended fields.

As expected, the correct extended fields are shown for the actual signed-in user. So far so good. However, one extended field [[+screen]] is problematic. Instead of showing the correct value for the user it's returning the value for the admin despite the fact that the user's profile (in the Manager) shows the correct value for [[+screen]]. It's just not making it to the front-end.

Also, the [[+screen]] extended field is used on the login link and that seems to be working fine. It's odd.

Here's my Profile snippet:
[ed. note: todd.b last edited this post 11 years, 9 months ago.]

Are you logged in to the Manager as well, when testing this? Always use a different browser that is not logged in to the Manager when testing front-end login features.

It happens when I'm not logged into the Manager. That's what's so odd.

In any case I ended up adding &user=`[[*id]]` to the Profile snippet:


It seems to work. [ed. note: todd.b last edited this post 11 years, 9 months ago.]

The [[*id]] is the resource ID for the current page, it has nothing to do with user IDs.

You can use [[++modx.user.id]] to get the current user ID. Actually, you can use

to get an extended field as long as it's in the outer level, not in a container.

Thank you Susan. Works well.

I am curious as to why only the one field is wrong when the other 6 extended fields on the same page render fine. Oh well.

On a slight tangent but also regarding the [[+screen]] extended field, I'm using a Chunk with getResources to show recent articles. It works ok except for showing the name of the member who actually created the resource. It either shows the admin name or, in the event a user is signed-in, the named of that user, but never the actual author.
[ed. note: todd.b last edited this post 11 years, 9 months ago.]

I would use

Yes, that would be easier, but for reasons of privacy it's not an option. The [[+screen]] extended field allows members to create a screen name that is attached to their resources in place of fullname or (gasp) username.