customized fields

[bouhani]

Hello,

I apologize if this is a repeated question.

I created a customized field for users' profile so the users will be able to specify their gender. "This field will then appear on the "Options" page of the User CP," as stated in the CP documentation.

My question is where does this field exactly reside? I mean I was trying to use this field in a conditional statement in another template [happened to be "postbit_onlinestatus" template] so I can display different status icons based on the user's gender.

So generally, how can I use those customized fields in any template I want?

Thanks