Adding Custom Profile Field to Signatures?

[weaselgun]

I'm looking to redo how threads look and I wanted to remove the current signatures and replace that area with custom profile fields. (Character stuff will be in these fields.) But I do not understand how to implement this? 

I've moved the: " {foreach $[user.custom_field]}$[user.custom_field.name]: <br />{/foreach}" into the signature area on Themes > Layout Templates > Post List

{if $[post.created_by.signature]}

<div class="signature">$[user.custom_field.value]</div>

{/if}


but the value of the field won't show up. (I don't need the name of the field, just value for now)

Is this something that cannot be done or am I just going about it the wrong way? Thanks!

[Brian]

Hi, weaselgun .

You'd want to use something like this.

{if $[post.created_by.signature]}
    <div class="signature">
        {foreach $[post.created_by.custom_field]}
            <div>$[post.created_by.custom_field.value]</div>
        {/foreach}
    </div>
{/if}

Or if you only want the values of specific custom fields:

{if $[post.created_by.signature]}
    <div class="signature">
        {foreach $[post.created_by.custom_field]}
            {if $[post.created_by.custom_field.name] == "Your Custom Field Name 1"}
                <div>$[post.created_by.custom_field.value]</div>
            {/if}

            {if $[post.created_by.custom_field.name] == "Your Custom Field Name 2"}
                <div>$[post.created_by.custom_field.value]</div>
            {/if}

            {if $[post.created_by.custom_field.name] == "Your Custom Field Name 3"}
                <div>$[post.created_by.custom_field.value]</div>
            {/if}
        {/foreach}
    </div>
{/if}

[Brian]

Also worth noting that because of the presence of {if $[post.created_by.signature]} the fields will only show when the user's signature area is filled out in their Edit Profile page.

There's also a shorter way to do the if statements if you're going to be using the same HTML for every custom field.

[weaselgun]

Brian

Thank you so much that worked!! Is there a way to make it so people can use colors for the text/bold/italics? what's it called, bbcode? Can that be enabled so its not plain text?

[Brian]

In Members > Custom Profile Fields you can change the options of a custom field to allow light BBCode. Full BBCode isn't available, so font colors unfortunately won't be usable.

Sept 22, 2013 10:21:46 GMT -8 Brian said:

We have two types of BBCode on ProBoards: Regular BBCode and Light BBCode.

Regular BBCode allows you to do everything you can in posts, whether it be regular font styling options, tables, divs, images, or whatever.

Light BBCode limits you to just a select amount of basic styling options for text: Bold, underline, italic, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, and links. This is so that small areas consisting of text like the News Feed or the Shoutbox don't become cluttered with objects that they cannot contain.

Custom fields are typically rendered in text-only areas so they only support light BBCode at the most.