Drupal Guides

Configure the Base Content Profile Settings

To configure the base Content Profile settings, click on the Administer | Site building | Content types link, or navigate to admin/content/types. Click the Edit link for the Profile content type. Then, click the Content Profile tab.

The base settings allow us to configure how the node profile will be displayed on the user profile page. As shown in the preceding screenshot, in the User page display style section we have four options:

• Don't display this content profile on the user account page — only select this option if you will be overriding the core user profile page via the theming layer. This is an advanced theming technique; refer to Chapter 14: Theming and User Interface Design; additionally, refer to the handbook page on overriding user profiles at http://drupal.org/node/35728.

• Display it as link to the profile content—select this option if you only want to link to the full profile node from the user profile page.

• Display the full content—this option displays the full node on the user profile page.

• Display the content's teaser—this option displays the teaser view on the profile page. As discussed later in this section, this option provides us some flexibility not found in the other options. For our example, choose this option.

The final two options—Include an edit link to the display and Show a link to the content profile creation page, if there is no profile — should both be selected, as they improve usability.

The Weight can be left at 0.

When these settings have been adjusted as needed, click the Submit button to save the changes.