Aloha,

We are building out our member's section using JomSocial for our wellness site. I am adding new fields to the custom profile section. We are asking members for data such as height, weight, age, etc. in order to calculate their BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) so we can track their calories expended during various activities. My question is, does the JomSocial interface automatically assign the mysql data type to the fields I create? For instance, does the interface know that for the weight field it is an INT? Do I need to designate this somewhere? Or does it matter?

Mahalo,
Tom

Hi Thomas,

I am sorry, currently Jomsocial cant detect the field value, if you wanna achive this I sugges you hack Jomsocial and hire the 3rd party developer www.jomsocial.com/jomsocial-developers

thank you

I am not sure I understand what you mean by hacking jomsocial. I used myphpadmin to view the database tables and was unable to view the user profile table. Is this by design? Shouldn't I be able to view all tables and table contents on my site that jomsocial installed?

Dear Thomas,

Yes you can do it very well in phpmyadmin, what I got with your question is jomsocial can detect the input right? INT or String? for this, its impossible right now.

Please elaborate more if my answer is not really clear for you.

thank you