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14 years 9 months ago #1588 by Czerdrill
Fields not Mapping was created by Czerdrill
Hi,

I'm using JomSocial, and I created a custom field called "Interests" and I mapped it to the facebook field User-Interests, however upon login the field is not pulled in. Did I do something wrong? All the other fields that I mapped (which were built into Jomsocial) import fine, but my custom added field does not. Any ideas?
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14 years 9 months ago #1589 by Czerdrill
Replied by Czerdrill on topic Fields not Mapping
Actually a follow up, if its a brand new user it does map the field. However, if it is an existing user and I add that custom field it doesn't update the field for them after I reconnect with Facebook. Is there a way for existing users who have already been mapped through facebook to be updated if I add a custom field?
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14 years 9 months ago #1592 by xcommunity
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I have the same question with Community Builder. Is there a way to for current users to update info from facebook.
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14 years 9 months ago #1610 by alzander
Replied by alzander on topic Fields not Mapping
Currently, there isn't, but we'd love your input on how to do this as we're investigating it. If we updated the users info from Facebook automatically, we think that would be problematic because some users would want different 'interests' or other information on a site-by-site basis. Do you have any suggestions on how best to do this without annoying some people who wouldn't want it to be automatic? Obviously, we could make it an option in the back end, "Always update profile information on login", or something like that.

Would that work? Are there any 'odd' cases-- you'd want field 'a' to update, but not field 'b', etc?
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14 years 9 months ago #1622 by Czerdrill
Replied by Czerdrill on topic Fields not Mapping
Yeah the "always update profile info" option would probably work and it can be disabled if people complain about it.
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