Forcing members to update their profiles?

[roxics]

Okay lets see.

A member comes to the board and logs in. The next screen that pops up is the "Edit profile" screen with a big message at the top from the administrator that says something like:

New Profile Questions are required to be answered below before you can post (or view) on the board.

They would then need to fill in those new required fields before they could either view or post on the board (administrators choice, one or the other).

Personally I'd like to use this in combination with these two other hacks:

http://www.vbulletin.org/hacks/index...ack&hackid=177

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...threadid=21833

So that I can make a searchable database of members. Where people can find other people based on searching certain fields in their profile. But in order for any of this to work exisiting members need to be forced to update their profiles so that people actually have something to seach out. Otherwise the members would just read some note I posted on the board about updated their profile but never do anything about it.

I know how people are, they'll either put it off, not catch my note about updating profiles, or think the profile update doesn't apply to them. They need to be forced to update the information so the system works. This hack would make them update the newly added required fields before they could do anything.