EasySocial Dynamic Custom Field development possible?
By Sylvain ROGER on Tuesday, 22 July 2014
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Hello,

We need to develop a custom field that makes it possible to manage professionnal experiences.


A user should be able to create N job positions in a single field.
A job position is basically made of a title, start and end date, company name and a description.


Is it possible using standard coding guidelines? If so, would you have some hints to provide us with?

Thanks a million.
Sylvain
Hello Sylvain,

You should take a look at our existing custom fields app on how you want to allow this to happen. The idea is probably allow the user to add as many textboxes as they want and upon saving, capture these submitted details. You can give the inputs any name you want and use Joomla's JRequest object to retrieve these values from the post data.
Mark
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Tuesday, 22 July 2014 22:41
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Thank you Mark. Do you have one example of custom field app I can rely on?
Sylvain ROGER
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Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:30
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Hello Sylvain,

There's tons of custom fields that you can refer to Take a look into /media/com_easysocial/apps/fields/user/
Mark
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Tuesday, 22 July 2014 23:35
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Thank you Mark,

As a matter of fact, I already had checked them before posting. My question is: "Is there a particular existing field that makes it possible to add N inputs?"

Thank you for your time.
Sylvain ROGER
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Wednesday, 23 July 2014 17:30
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Hello Sylvain,

We actually already got a couple of custom fields that allows users to select multiple input. You can take a look at multi textbox field as it allows users to enter multiple textbox fields.
Mark
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Wednesday, 23 July 2014 18:49
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