User profile update notification

Hello Tuan

I would like to know if the email received by the admin after user profile updated can contain name of updated field.

Best regards
Yao

Hello Yao

Unfortunately, we don't have a way to providing name of only updated fields yet. We will try to add support for it if there are more customers requesting for it in the future

Regards,

Tuan

Just wanted to check if it was still the case that notification emails don't detail what changes were made? And if not, is there a way to get this information?

Hi

Yes. At the moment, we don't have a way to show what change are made. In case you want to show the change, exactly how you want to show it?

Do you have a sample can show to me so that I can understand your need better? This could be implemented in future releases, just want to know exactly what you want to see in the email

Tuan

Hi Tuan

I guess just a simple note of the details of what was changed, so something along the lines of an email titled "USERNAME has made changes to their profile" (with USERNAME being a placeholder).

Then the body of the email would be, if possible, a list of old and new values such as:

FIELD	OLD VALUE	NEW VALUE
Address 1	47 Fourth St	344 Rullion Road
Email	simon@arcas.co.uk	simon@coldandalone.com

This would cover multiple fields being updated and also clearly record what the changes were. Would this sort of thing be possible?

Also, in relation to this, would it even be possible to store these values in a database table for potential viewing/export? (I figure that if this data is being prepared for the email it could also potentially be stored in the database?) Though that might be an option to be turned on/off in global config to stop unnecessary swelling of the database if people don't care about recording these changes.

I think we can add support for it in the email only. For storing this data in database, I don't think I can add support for it

Regards,

Tuan

I have similar requirements and so decided to jump to a model where I use a different extension for profile information (Easy profile). It has the benefit of working well with another extension called Profile History that stores all the profile changes in a database table.

Its not a combination for the feint hearted as I did have to write some code myself. Its custom code at present so would need to be created for each implementation. I need to improve the code and may try and make it more configurable so others could use it.

Alan

Alan,

I would be interested in learning more how you integrated Easyprofile. At the moment, I have easyprofile setup as it integrates with Joomla User and Kunena Forum on my site. But it does not update the Subscriber profile if changes are made in Easyprofile. Does your code do that? I may also just have something setup incorrectly. Right now changes only replicate to Easy from Subscriber, not the other way around. I would like when my users update their contact info in Easy, and then someday renew their subscription, it doesn't pull outdated info from their old Subscriber profile.

Austin
I created a plug-in that syncs the data as you require but:

- it assumes you need to sync the data to all the subscription records for that member
- it hard codes the field names in both extensions

I can provide the base code as I have it but you would need to be able to change the php to make it specific to your implementation.

Alan,

If you are willing to share, I will certainly see if I can adapt it for my needs! I've got some php experience.