User Fields are individual data attributes that store specific information about a user within the platform. These fields define the structure of user profiles and are used for identification, communication, access control, and personalization.
Example list of user fields
Personal information on users is collected with simple forms during Enrolment to Courses. Course Administrator chooses what User Fields he wants to have in his course. He can choose from the list of available User Fields configured by Superadmin.
On default system has 4 fields that can’t be removed (Name, Last name, Friend address, Friend name). They don’t need to be used in courses but if you do not ask students for their Name they will be displayed as User #xxx.
User field is displayed on the enrolment form if two conditions are met:
User didn’t already fill that field in one of previous courses
Example:
Create a new user field
| Name | User field name (Name) |
| Description | Displayed description (What’s your name) |
| Field label | Table displayed in templates and course slides (First name) |
| Field type | Choice of:
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| Not editable | Gives the possibility to edit or disable the option to edit the user field |
| Show this field in Coach assignment process | Automatically shows the information in the coach assignment process – example Gender and/or Age |
| Always available in profile settings for coaches | Coach has the information visible in his view – example Age, Location |
| Name | this is how the field will be displayed to the users |
| Description | you can add some additional description to the field (optional) |
| Field label | you can use the value of that field (user input) in course slides and email templates. To do that specify the label you want to use (optional).
Example: label “NAME” to field “Name”. You can use in Slide: Hello %NAME% |
| Field type | choose from the selection of different types like text, long text, radio button, etc… |
| Allow to sort users by this field | add this field as a sorting option (only for fields with predefined values – drop down selection and radio buttons) |
| Allow to filter users by this field | add this field as a filtering option (only for fields with predefined values – drop down selection and radio buttons) |
| Not editable | this option makes the field editable just once – during form fill (cannot be edited in user’s profile) |
| Show this field in Coach assignment process | display it to Course Coordinator in Coach details |
