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13 years 6 months ago #5060 by evil
how to add more fields FROM CB.
i can see only 8 fields from CB even if i have more as AGE. i'd like to import bithdays from facebook...
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13 years 6 months ago #5065 by alzander
Currently, we only allow importing into text and textfield fields in CB. The request for importing into date fields has been made a few times, and it's high in our priority list for the 3.1 release.

Other fields such as select boxes, radio buttons, etc are much harder to import into as what can be imported from Facebook rarely aligns with the data in a user's FB profile.
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13 years 6 months ago #5070 by evil
oh i see :)
well thanks for the explanation. i was going mad :-)
anyway "gender" and "age" are important field for the newsletter marketing
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13 years 6 months ago #5074 by alzander
How do you have Age setup? Do you have a select box with like <18, 18-26, 27-36, etc? I don't recall off-hand, but does CB have a special 'age' field? If so, I'd think we could come up with a way to work with that specific field.

We'd love to let users import into more fields as it's a semi-common request, but just haven't figured out a great way. For very specialized fields though, we can code something up.

Thanks!
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13 years 6 months ago #5081 by evil
this problem belongs only to CB? does the import work with jomsocial?
unluckly CB does not have a default gender field. For the gender I set a drop down field with 2 values.

Regarding the age field in CB is a special field and it's a date field. You select your birthday and the component calculates current age.

How does FB exports his notext-fields? You could use same standard as FB and write a little guideline about how to setup fields in cb correctly to import the value.
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13 years 6 months ago #5092 by alzander
JomSocial is setup the same way (only import into text type fields). The same issues present themselves regardless of community software used. For example, your drop down for Gender is Male / Female (let's say). Someone else could have "Man / Woman" or even "Man / Woman / Child". Facebook would return "male / female", which the upper vs lower case could cause problems. We could try to give some complex way to 'normalize' the information from Facebook to make it line up with your options... but then, Facebook is also multi-lingual, so then you have to take into account "senior / seniorita", etc. Can get confusing.

The Age field sounds like something doable because a date is a date is a date. We may have to alter what FB sends us to conform to CB (or JS's) notation, but shouldn't be tough. It's on our to-do list.

Hope this helps clarify a bit about the problems. We've gone over the options a lot, but with JFBConnect becoming more stable and more robust, it might be time to try to tackle the next tier of profile importing issues.
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13 years 6 months ago #5095 by evil
well let's start from the age, it's more easy :-)
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13 years 6 months ago #5096 by fb_634042543

alzander wrote: Currently, we only allow importing into text and textfield fields in CB. The request for importing into date fields has been made a few times, and it's high in our priority list for the 3.1 release.

Other fields such as select boxes, radio buttons, etc are much harder to import into as what can be imported from Facebook rarely aligns with the data in a user's FB profile.


Alex, I also think it is important to import some other popular field.For integrate with CB, maybe we could set some rules for integrating, such as map gender with radio botton with only 2 choices in CB and the first choice is male, second one is female. Then I think it could be easily integrate from FB.
Hope the new mapping choice could be included in the future update=]
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13 years 6 months ago #5101 by alzander
We have big changes for the overall profile mapping scheduled for 3.1. Many more fields to import from Facebook and other nifty things on the Joomla side. We're still working it out, and focused on getting the 3.0.2 bug-fix release out right now.

We'll definitely do what we can to get better mapping options into 3.1 and future releases after that. Thanks for your input!
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13 years 2 months ago #7422 by Beth
Hi,
Newbie here:)

I've been reading through the board postings and am having a similar issue. Some of the basic fields, such as zipcode (cb) / zip (fb) don't exist on the facebook dropdown list. I desperately need to include this field. It seems to be a rather standard text transfer and there is no option for it in the drop-down selection...Is there any way to include it? Same with "phone."

Also, CB offers "location" as a field and FB offers "Basic Info - Current Location" but on their actual site, as a member, they collect more fields, such as those listed on CB. Why is there only one option through this mapping tab for location, city, state, zipcode, country, address, zip: "Basic Info - Current Location"?

Thanks!
Beth
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