DotNetNuke 5.4 Cookbook

Managing profile properties

Before we leave managing users and move on to site setup there is one more thing to demonstrate. The user accounts page has fields such as First Name, Last Name, and many others. These are called Profile Properties. But as Portal Administrator you can control the fields that appear on the user profile. You can streamline user registration by removing properties you don't want. You can also create your own profile properties if there is special user information you want to collect.

Getting ready

For this recipe you will need some test users to modify their profile. See the recipe Creating users and granting access to create a test user.

How to do it...

1. Begin by logging in as the Portal Administrator (sysadmin in our examples). ...