In the process moving from a CB based sited from Joomla 3.11 to 4.3.4 with Community Builder 2.8.2.
A necessary field is used for displaying and/or changing the assigned user group, and under 3.11 it used the Usergroups field plugin from Open Tools.Â
Open Tools has ceased development of the Usergroups Field which does not work under PHP 8.0 and greater.
Looking for alternate solutions, or a hired developer that can upgrade the code in the existing plugin that R. Kainhofer has generously made available on the Open Tools site.
You should be able to change usergroup from backend freely. That's not normally something I'd recommend to allow on frontend, but it's doable combining a select fieldtype with a usergroup auto action (would require 1 auto action per select option).
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Thanks for the quick reply - I don't really need to change the usergroup from the front end, simply display it.
I suspect I can use the code field to get the related usergroup for each user in a list and display the field, or use a text field that is updated by auto action when the profile is created or modified.
I'll have to explore it.
Thanks!
Ah, ok you've a couple of options then. You could use a CB Query Field and query for that information in the database. You could use a CB Code Field and use PHP with Joomla API to get their usergroups to display them. Or the easiest is to just use substitutions. Example as follows.
[cb:if usergroup includes "2"]I have Registered Usergroup[/cb:if]
You'd need to have 1 IF substitution per usergroup you want displayed. You can use this in a Custom HTML field so you can have it display however you like. Simply replace the 2 with whatever ID your usergroup has.
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Solution using the CB Query field posted for others wrestling with displaying the usergroup in profiles and lists. Substitute your database prefix for cms.
Code:
SELECT cms_usergroups.title
FROM (((cms_users
INNER JOIN cms_user_usergroup_map
ON cms_users.id = cms_user_usergroup_map.user_id)
INNER JOIN cms_usergroups
ON cms_user_usergroup_map.group_id = cms_usergroups.id)
INNER JOIN cms_comprofiler
ON cms_users.id = cms_comprofiler.user_id)
WHERE cms_users.id = [cb:userdata field="user_id" user="#displayed" /];
Worked through many permutations before finding a query that worked as expected. Is there a reference for cb substitutions beyond the "Using Substitutions throughout CB". I clearly need to improve my working knowledge of CB.
krileon
