Hello,
Please give me some suggestions on what the best way to accomplish the following in DNN is...

We are going to be using DNN for our internal website at our company.  I would like to set it up so that each user can edit their profile and then search others profiles that are in the company.  I would like to have it so that a user can update their profile with information about their position (i.e. department, such as marketing, accounting, etc.) then someone else could search the users by department.

Also another thing we would like to do would be to add something in the profile that would allow a user to list different software titles that they know how to use.  Maybe also someone could search by this parameter also.

Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from all of you,
Jason

A variety of third-party modules directly offer this capability, and several others can easily be adapted to do what you describe.  If possible, though, I would suggest that you hold off for a little while before implementing this functionality.  Many features related to profiles were recently introduced into DNN and it will take awhile longer before the community catches up to it.  Waiting will give you easier upgrades, fewer problems down the road, and better integration.  If nothing else, I'd suggest using the core functionality as much as possible and use other tools to query and display the data.

Here are some useful links on this area in the core:

http://dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryID/409/Default.aspx  

http://dotnetnuke.com/Community/Blogs/tabid/825/EntryID/457/Default.aspx

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Shane Miller