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iftomkins
Maven
11 years ago

Creating and setting value for custom profile fields

We would like to create custom profile fields, and then set values for them. We were told this was possible by our Lithium contact, but I'm having difficulty finding documentation on how to do this. ...
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JasonL
Lithium Alumni (Retired)

hi iftomkins 

not too sure about the exact context

 

but one thing noticed was your first REST call  URL:

.../profiles/name/ideas_terms_accepted/...

and your 2nd REST call to retrieve URL was this:

.../profiles/name/profile.ideas_terms_accepted/...

 should it be just .../profiles/ideas_terms_accepted/... (without the "profile.") in the 2nd REST call?

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iftomkins
Maven
10 years ago

Thanks JasonL . The profile.field format I had copied from another rest API call in our code, not sure why it worked there but not here. What did end up working is a combination of 1) your suggestion for formatting the URL, and 2) changing the 2nd call from rest() to restadmin().

 

Here's the working code:

 

<#assign response = restadmin("/users/id/${user.id}/profiles/name/ideas_terms_accepted/set?value=unchecked")/>
<#assign terms_accepted = restadmin("/users/id/${user.id}/profiles/name/ideas_terms_accepted").value>
alert('${user.id}');
alert('${terms_accepted}');

 

Also, a note on checkbox fields, the values that work seem to be checked/unchecked, not true/false.