Community Builder Facebook field mapping how to add more?

Beth,
In the most recent v3.1, we add a bunch of new fields and refined what we're able to import. Unfortunately, not every field that you see in a user's Facebook profile is able to be imported. Facebook does some shorthand on its site so that a user can enter a zip code, and it will look up the user's location from that. However, all it will let us/JFBConnect import is that location that it determines.

You can see a full listing of the fields we can import from the link below. If you search for "location", you'll see that what it returns is:

A JSON object containing name and id

Regardless of what a JSON object is, the important part is that it only returns the users location in a city, state format and Facebook's internal ID for that location (which doesn't have much value).
developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/

Sorry for the inconvenience, and if there's a way we can improve this, or if you know of a site that's doing things differently, let us know. There are tools out there to look up zip codes based on a city/state location. That's about the best option I can suggest for you to get the user's zip code.

For your information, long ago in the 2.x series of JFBConnect we actually could get the zip code, but Facebook changed that functionality back in July.

Hope this helps, and if there's anything we can do, let us know.

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The Current Location field, return a value like "Albany, New York". I'm pretty sure I can give you a few lines of code that would be able to add City and State as separate fields to import from Facebook, if you'd like that (not guaranteeing it'd be that easy, but I think so). The alternative is to do what you say and parse out the value after you get the whole thing.. but that gets uglier because then you also have to hard-code the fields it goes into.

Requiring the zip for CB, right now, would actually cause some problems. CB is a little annoying in that if we (JFBConnect) create a user and try to save it with a blank value that's marked as required, CB will not save that user. Therefore, if you mark zip as required, but don't import anything into it, the CB user won't be created at all (no profile, not activated, very annoying). We're working on the 3.2 release now, and one of the goals (though still under investigation) is to have an option to add any required fields from CB, that aren't being imported into automatically, to the Registration page of JFBConnect. You'd have to use the Full Joomla User option, and we're still ironing out some details, but are optimistic this will be in the 3.2 release.

Hope this helps, but if you have any other questions, suggestions, or issues, definitely let us know!

Beth,
I'm looking into this. I'm hoping to be able to get you a solution this weekend that will split the fields out.

Thanks for your patience,
Alex