User Form

This is a maintenance topic, used by the Wiki administrator.

Data form definition of user topics

Name	Type	Size	Values	Tooltip message	Attributes
FirstName	text	40
LastName	text	40
OrganisationName	text	40
OrganisationURL	text	40
Profession	text	40
Country	text	40
State	text	40
Address	text	40
Location	text	40
Telephone	text	40
VoIP	text	40
InstantMessaging (IM)	textarea	50x4		(One account per line, if several)
Email	text	40
HomePage	text	40
Comment	textarea	50x6

Customizing the User Form

If you want to change the user form, you would first want to make a copy of this form to the Main Web. That ensures your changes stay intact after a Foswiki update.

To make a copy, follow these steps:

• By hand:
  1. Take a copy of this topic and save it to Main.UserForm
  2. When editing your new UserForm topic, change the entries in the data form definition. You may remove all explanation around the table.
• Automatically:
  
  
  you will return here after saving

Note that your form changes will only be visible in a user topic after it has been saved.
Please keep the UserRegistration form and this form definition in sync. When you update this form you need to edit/save the NewUserTemplate topic. This ensures that the fields are in the right order.

A form for new users

To use your new user form for new (registering) users, create a copy of Main.NewUserTemplate.

• By hand:
  1. Take a copy of System.NewUserTemplate and save it to Main.NewUserTemplate
  2. Set the topic form to your custom UserForm topic

• Automatically:
  
  
  you will return here after saving

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Related topics: WikiUsers, PatternSkinUserViewTemplate, NewUserTemplate, UserHomepageHeader, DataForms, UserRegistration