Force Current Members To Fill Out Required Profile Field

So you add a new required profile field, and members who join afterwards are forced to fill out the field, but you want your current members to fill out that field too. Well unless your current members go edit their profile, the new field sits and waits for them to take action. This mod will force your current members to fill out the field by prompting them for action before allowing them to return to normal site use. Here are some further details:

• Install as a vB 3.5.0 product.
• Thanks to wolfyman for this post.
• Thanks to KirbyDE for this post.
• Credit is given to Revan from this post.
• Credit is given to Locutus2999 from this thread.
• Related vB 2.2.x from roxics in this thread.
• Here based off the vB 2.3.x hack by Locutus2999.
• Cost to install this mod is an additional query.
• Support only if/as time available, no guarantees.
• Should you install, say thanks by clicking install.

Remember to set 'Field Required' to 'Yes' and 'Field Editable by User' to 'Yes' for mod to kick in (see profile how-to: http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/profile).

Mod Update (03 September 2005):
- changed mod from plugin/hack to product

Mod Update (01 October 2005):
- changed mod to have better output display

Mod Update (10 October 2005):
- changed mod to use required, editable fields

Mod Update (02 February 2006):
- added vB v.3.5.3 force profile update mod

[calorie]

@wolfyman and weaver - are you installing this mod as a product?
[ ACP > Manage Products > Add/Import Product > Import Product ]

[wolfyman]

Originally Posted by calorie

@:Judge: - nope, this mod is for required profile fields.
@wolfyman - make sure to fill in all required profile fields.
@weaver - what bug fix did Marco suggest for this mod?

Every field on the page was filled in.

[calorie]

@wolfyman - just ran a test on 3.5 Gold and it worked okay for me. Not sure what to advise. Maybe delete/uninstall the mod, and then reinstall as a product.

[wolfyman]

ok, will try

[wolfyman]

ok, it was already installed as a product - I was pretty sure it was.

I figured out what happened though - the new field was gender, and it was set to editable only at registration.

Wich means anybody who registered after the field was added was being asked to edit something they couldn't edit.

[calorie]

@wolfyman: Thanks for the info. Mod has been updated to avoid that issue.

[weaver]

Originally Posted by wolfyman

ok, it was already installed as a product - I was pretty sure it was.

I figured out what happened though - the new field was gender, and it was set to editable only at registration.

Wich means anybody who registered after the field was added was being asked to edit something they couldn't edit.

Yeah I thought of that too but when I changed that field to editable at any time, it still didn't fix it. I'll update with the newest copy though and maybe that will fix it.

[wolfyman]

Originally Posted by calorie

@wolfyman: Thanks for the info. Mod has been updated to avoid that issue.

happy to help, thank you for the plugin.

[weaver]

I just uninstalled and reinstalled the updated version. It wouldn't work with it set to "edit only at registration". I did what wolfyman did and now it works.

[calorie]

@weaver: glad it's working.

If you set 'Field Required' or 'Field Editable by User' to something other than 'Yes' the mod will now ignore that profile field.