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What does "Rebuild Default Profile Tabs"

JT Jimmy Thomson
Jimmy Thomson
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Member since Apr 2012
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Sep 5, 2013 · 4:15 am · Edited

I have recently migrated my website to another server and while everything else seems to be working, I don’t seem to be able to edit users’ profiles (or even my own).

When I try, I get this message:

“Profile form could not be found: [Account Settings]
You might try the forum – toolbox – housekeeping admin form and reset the profile tabs and menus and see if that helps.”

So what happens if I press that button?  Am I likely to lose anything (or anyone)?

In the Rebuild … Tabs section it recommends only doing this if advised by you guys.

What do you advise?

Thanks

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Member since Nov 2008
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Sep 5, 2013 · 5:15 am

The server migration has changed the path to the profile forms so you will need to reset them. It us harmless and necessary.

JT Jimmy Thomson
Jimmy Thomson
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Sep 5, 2013 · 6:53 am

Thank you very much.  Worked a treat! And apologies for the missing verb at the end of the header.

DN David Norman
David Norman
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Member since Feb 2014
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Oct 18, 2014 · 4:37 pm

Thanks all. This also answered my concern about what the reset/rebuild actually did and whether it would reset all the profiles (and customs fields) back to blank. I gather now it just rests the path after my server migration. Anyway, it has fixed the error.smile

MP Mr Papa
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Oct 18, 2014 · 4:39 pm

yeah, shouldnt affect  custom data… just rebuilds the profile tabs and menus…  if you had disabled any of them, they likely would get re-enabled, but not something the average user does…