Member Roles - displayed in profiles?

[Carrie]

Hi, I have an educational Ning and would very much like to display member ROLES. For example, someone who is a MENTOR would have MENTOR appear under thier picture on their My Page. A student would like wise have STUDENT appear under their picture on their My Page.

Is this possible? If so, how?

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Carrie,

There's no easy way right now to have this information display on a member's profile page. One option though would be to create a profile question which was a dropdown list containing your choices (Mentor, Student etc) and then to nominate the answer to that question as something to display in the member listing pages. That would mean that your members could clearly see who the mentors and who the students are on the Members page.

If you did that, it might then be possible to wire up some javascript code which determined what a member's answer to the question was when someone visited their profile page, and automatically updated it to make their role more obvious for visitors.

Hope that helps,
Phil

[James Hawkins]

Hi Carrie (and Phil ),
This is actually easy! On member> profile questions page set a new question as "Role on Site" (or whatever), then pick multiple choice, (your titles as possible answers) then click feature This title will then be listed under their picture on their My Page as well as next to their picture on all members.
James

[J.Wings]

Assuming you don't have students who would think it's funny to put "mentor".

[James Hawkins]

Gee Phil~ that, I realize now, is exactly what you said! Sorry! If you can delete these posts, then I don't have to be so embarrassed! LOL

[TJ @ jQueryHelp]

Is Ning going to add this ability soon? Because I can do it with jQuery but it would take a bit of work, which I'd rather not do if Ning is going to roll this out any day now anyway!

Visit http://jqueryhelp.ning.com/ if you want. Go to anyone's profile page. We already inject "Last Active Here" info under everyone's pic. We could inject a ROLE as text or img, or really anything else you want, under their pic.

Admin could enter the Roles into a table on a password protected page. No Students becoming Mentors.

[Alex Hart]

Something like this would be useful for us as we can tie into a program we have with the new leaderboard and could use in a new community we will be setting up in a few weeks but we need to be able to assign the appropriate tag and not enable a member to do it.

[TJ @ jQueryHelp]

Hi Carrie,

I said 3 weeks ago here that I might implement this, and I have it working at jQueryHelp. The NC, me at jQueryHelp, can edit a member Title (what you called role) to whatever they want for each member, and it displays right under their name which is under their profile pic on their profile page.

After some testing, I might release this little app. Do you have a Plus or Pro account? You'll need a Custom Code box to implement it.

Anyone who wants to provide thoughts or comments on this little app is welcome to do so, here:
http://jqueryhelp.ning.com/forum/topics/member-titles

Best wishes!

"TJ"

[Matt Black]

Really looking forward to this. This will be huge for my site.

[AMZ]

this app is wow i mean wow it's great

it really does TJ

[TJ @ jQueryHelp]

Hi Carrie,

We're making this available to a few networks for testing:

http://jqueryhelp.ning.com/forum/topics/new-last-active-here-app

[drex]

Hey TJ any news about this app? I think I could really use this on my network. Thanks

[TJ @ jQueryHelp]

It's been working fine on my network and several others for quite a while now.  I set my title/role to "jQueryHelp King!" :)  http://jqueryhelp.ning.com/profile/James

You can read about our apps, here: http://jqueryhelp.ning.com/forum/topics/apps-available-for-one-time