Hi,

I would like to change the "User Profile" display in the "manage user" panel. And I would like to ask the following questions:

1) Under admin/Users/manageusers.aspx, where is the actual realization of dnn:profile ctlProfile, pnlProfile located? Particularly, if one wants to rearrange this panel, where/what should he look for? Is that true that, currently, dotnetnuke user profile is followed the flow implementation?

2) On the profile properties, I want to implement another data type, similar to the country pull-down-list. How do I implement such thing? Where are the country data located? If the USA is selected, the state list will be enable. Where/how is this controlled?

Any comment is greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.

dnn:profile is just a tag to recognize that  you use this line inside your .ascx :

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="Profile" Src="~/Admin/Users/Profile.ascx" %>

ctlProfile is the ID of your tag based on your tagprefix above. That's the ID that you want to manipulate from code behind. pnlProfile is just a panel control to show or hide the view of the profile.

For question number one, CMIIW, did you mean that you want to show User Profile to your custom module ? For example, to show user profile from logged in user ?

If so, first put Profile.ascx inside your .ascx :

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="Profile" Src="~/Admin/Users/Profile.ascx" %>

Then, add the control:

<dnn:Profile id="ctlProfile" runat="server"></dnn:Profile>

In code behind, add this code in your Page_Init method (or in another method based on your scenario) :

ctlProfile.ID = "Profile";
ctlProfile.UserId = DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController.GetCurrentUserInfo().UserID;

Then you can load the profile's value from Page_Load (or in another method based on your scenario) like below :

ctlProfile.DataBind();

Is that what you mean ?

CMIIW.

Thank you, all, very much for helping me out. I gained alot insight into how dotnetnuke works, and I appreciate your helps very much.

I, however, could not understand where the actual realization of "user profile editor" layout located. I want to change it from the "flow" layout into the "grid" layout, but could not locate the actual code that implements this binding. Under the most examples, the page_load method creates applicable components, and adds these components into the panel, e.g.: pnlProfile; the panel layout property dictates how the components are layout, e.g.: flow, grid, etc.

Previous versions of dotnetnuke have implemented different layouts, and I try to combine these layouts for my specific application. Can you point out where should I devote my attention to. Thank you very much.

Your helps are greatly appreciated very much.