As an administrator, you may wish to collect extra information from your users (in addition to all the standard fields). With the new
user profile fields feature, you can provide extra fields for the user to fill in when he/she registers for the bulletin board.
For example, we have created five user profile fields in the vBulletin.com/forums/ bulletin board:
- Biography
- Location
- Interests
- Occupation
- Version of vBulletin
Now, when a new user registers for the forum, they have the chance to fill in these fields:
(The user profile fields are marked in this illustration with a red cross)
After registering, the user profile information will be visible to all users via the user profile page:
The user can edit his/her user profile information via the user control panel
Edit Profile setting:
