Best way to customize Members App in Groups
By Norske on Monday, 10 August 2015
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Hello,
The stock Members App that appears in Group Pages does not meet my needs. It does not display custom profile fields for each Member. So to get a member's address or phone number a user must click on a Member's name in the application, then click again to get to detail information from the Profile page. And then they must repeat those clicks for every member in the group.

I am making this Forum post to get your advice. What is the best way to provide a Group Member listing with details like address and phone number?

Is the best way to:
1. Modify the stock Members application
2. Write my own Easy Social application that displays the Profile fields I want
3. Other?

So again, just looking for advice here. Making sure I am not missing some standard functionality that might make this easier.
Add on question...what is the best way to place a custom link in the left hand position of a Groups page under the Applications module or Above it?
Norske
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Monday, 10 August 2015 04:01
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Hi Norske,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it weekends for all of us here.

Unfortunately you need to modify the theme file for members app from /media/com_easysocial/apps/group/members/themes/default/groups/default.list.php in order to achieve this. After that you can use the following API to echo user's address or phone number inside the theme file for each user:
<?php echo 'Phone Number : '.$user->getFieldValue('TEXTBOX'); ?>

<?php echo 'Address : '.$user->getFieldValue('ADDRESS'); ?>

You should be able to see the output like this, http://screencast.com/t/tWmhyfnJo1 .

Add on question...what is the best way to place a custom link in the left hand position of a Groups page under the Applications module or Above it?

You can modify it from /components/com_easysocial/themes/wireframe/groups/item.php under division <div class="es-sidebar" data-sidebar>
Ezrul Fazwan
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Monday, 10 August 2015 12:34
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Ah! That screenshot is perfect. I would totally pay you guys a development fee to change the Member application so an Admin could go into the application settings and choose which profile fields to display. Care to give me a quote on that?
Norske
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Tuesday, 11 August 2015 10:50
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Hey Norske,

Kindly please request for a quote using the form at http://stackideas.com/contact-us
Mark
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Wednesday, 12 August 2015 18:03
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