Country and Gender Fields

What extension are you trying to import into? JFBConnect only allows importing into text-type fields, date, or URL fields. If it's a select box (drop down, radio, checkbox, etc), we don't allow importing into that field. There's no guarantee that the field that Facebook returns will be in your available options list, so it's not possible to import into those types of fields.

Text type fields are meant to have 'unknown' data, so we can import into them. If you need country, we'd recommend making it a text field.

Hope that makes sense,
Alex

The only way to have both a text and drop-down field would be to create both of those fields, which could get confusing.

If you're interested in *testing* a change that may work for countries, there's a minor code change you can make below. If you edit the /plugins/jfbcprofiles/jomsocial.php file, around line 522, you'll see the following line:Update that to the following (adding the --OR type="country"--)
That will add the Country field to the Field Map area of JFBConnect Profiles. Then, set the correct Country field from Facebook to import into it. It's likely that the countries from Facebook will 'align' with what JomSocial allows, but there may be some countries that don't work perfectly. However, if you expect the majority of your users to come from the 'major' countries, it will hopefully work as expected. Please, please, please test and let us know how well the field gets imported and if it seems correct with the options available in JomSocial!

Some things to look for are is that Facebook (I believe) will return "United States". I don't know what JomSocial uses, but if it's U.S.A or United States of America, that would look like 2 different countries that your users may be from.

Good luck, and keep us posted,
Alex

The field for country is generated by Facebook automatically. Even though it's only one field in your actual profile, they let you pull it through the API separately from the city or state.

You can even test on our demo site or see the country being pulled into a demo profile:
www.sourcecoast.com/jfbconnect/demo/joms...ge/profile?userid=65

I'd recommend trying it with a text field on your site, for now, to see if the right field from Facebook is pulled in. Then, if it's not working in the JomSocial Country Select List, see if the text field that was imported is an available option in your country list in JomSocial. If they don't match exactly, that may be the problem.

Let us know how that goes!
Alex

I hope that got you going. If not, let us know. We have it in our to-do list to look into ways to make the country import work with JomSocial's custom 'country' field, but it's not a high priority and may not even be very possible.

We'll definitely keep you posted on what we find. Until then though, best of luck, and let us know if you need anything else!

Thanks,
Alex