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First, apologies for the odd Topic name. And the fact that this could go into several different sub-forums!
Secondly, thanks to the guys who run the forum for their help in the past. It's doubtless because it's a members forum, but having direct access to the developers means problems can pretty much get solved pretty easily.
That kind of has a drawback, I suppose, in that there are less regular users or those developing their forums chipping in to help (probably no need really!)
Reason I say all this is that I was hoping to see if anyone had any ideas on working with Profiles and Custom Fields. Or, if anyone had managed to do what I'd like to with them and was willing to share or point me to an example forum. The example being...
I've wanted to develop a kind of member directory within my site, which is a Wordpress installation with S:P as part of it. Doing so in WP is quite complicated and code-heavy and none of the plugins that exist allow much flexibility and require some coding skills, and there's the registration/access side which needs a combination of plugins and code and CSS, and still doesn't really do the job that well as far as I've seen.
But looking at the pop-up you get form a SimplePress user profile, it has the basics you might want (name, avatar, website etc). I think the custom fields might allow for embedding stuff like twitter names, FB links, better pics, videos or whatever (not quite worked this out yet though). Admittedly this would be within SP i.e. an a-z system would be hard to sort out and it'd be more directory-like if it wasn't in the popup, but being within SP means the logging in/permissions stuff would be sorted out.
Long story short then, anyone seen any examples of profiles acting as a kind of directory, or even any good examples of Custom Fields or any descriptions of how examples of this working well were achieved?
Thanks
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I have not seen anyone use the profiles and custom fields to create a directory of members and their info. In most cases they usually add the extra info next to a poster's name on a post and rarely even add it to their public profile display or popup.The hardest thing they have with extra profile information is getting people to fill it out. 
You could add whatever info you wanted to show to the members list display. It has a default sort order but there is a the search box
If you needed more you would probably need a custom plugin that creates a page and list designed to show what you want. There is a custom plugin service available if you want to check that out.
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will answer in more detail when I can log into the actual forum vice answering by email...
first, you dont have to do profile views in a popup... in fact, if you do it on a page, it probably gets you mostly what you want... see the option in forum - profile - options... have it be fixed page vs popup...
then you can add whatever you want to the profile view using our custom profile fields plugin... any new fields you add would simply be added to the spProfileShow() template file in your sp theme... in fact, you can add, delete or shuffle around whatever you want in there...
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thanks for the info there gents - ditching the popup would be a good idea (would be good if it could be set up to only display on a page for that one subforum but suspect it'll be a worldwide setting).
I had seen the custom fields plugin, something I need to sit down with and take some time to tinker with.
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