Create and Manage Custom Profile Questions

by Tom on 2nd Sep 2008 | View all blogs by Tom
  • As a network owner, you can create custom questions for your members to answer.
  • These questions are useful for gathering more information about users, such as for specific details relevant to your network, and also for making users' profiles more interesting and informative

 

  • Answers can be required, or optional.
  • You can choose whether you wish users' answers to be displayed to everyone on your network, or just moderators and you, the owner.
  • Answers can be written as one option from a list, as a single line answer, or as a multi line answer, depending on which option you choose.

 

  • To add a custom question to your network, go to your admin centre, which can be accessed via the link in your sidebar, or at http://my.socialgo.com

  • Click 'Add Another Question'

  • First, enter your question.
  • Then choose what type of answer you would like the user to be able to give.
  • The 3 different answer fields will appear like this to users:

  • Once you've selected which kind of answer you'd like your users to give, you can choose the settings for the answer.


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  • If you'd like only moderators and owners to be able to see the answer, click 'Private Answer'.
  • If you'd like to make answering the question compulsory when members sign-up, select 'Require an answer'.
  • Once you've written your question, and confirmed the settings for it, click the 'Update Questions' button.

 

  • Once you've set your questions, they will be seen in the 'Sign-Up' form, and also in the 'Edit Profile' section of 'Manage Account' in your sidebar.
  • The answers to your custom questions will be visible on every member's profile, like this:

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  • Should you wish to disable a custom question, so that it is not displayed, but is not deleted, then you can do so by entering the 'Profile Questions' section of your admin centre, and ticking the 'Disable' button next to the relevant question.
  • If you'd like to completely delete a question, simply tick the 'Delete' box.

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  • You must click 'Update questions' for your changes to be saved

Comments

3 Comments

  • KaScH
    by KaScH 1 year ago
    This featue is pretty neat indeed!
    But rearanging would be very nice :D
  • snoopy
    by snoopy 1 year ago
    Would be nice to have multiple choice questions where members have the option to select more than one answer. Instead of radio buttons, how about check boxes?

    - s -
  • Akiev S
    by Akiev S 7 months ago
    can you set the width of text box, restrict it to numbers, etc
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