Can I assign a user-specific title / banner?

[Old Nick]

Your add-on does what I wanted (though limited to 5) by putting the text in a colored banner. I thought maybe this was a way to do the same thing natively.

You are doing something wrong somewhere.
What is the ID of you custom user field ?
And what are the settings you choose for it ?

 

[eL_]

/me facepalm!

 

[ForumFan]

You are doing something wrong somewhere.
What is the ID of you custom user field ?
And what are the settings you choose for it ?

Thanks for your help! I played around with the settings with the same result.

 

[Old Nick]

Creates a custom profile field named Banner, not editable by the user. A simple text field with userBanner as ID for example.

I think you missed this important point.

Your ID is userbanner, the code i provided you contain userBanner.
Change one or the other but they must be the same.

 

[ForumFan]

I think you missed this important point.

Your ID is userbanner, the code i provided you contain userBanner.
Change one or the other but they must be the same.

Aha! OK. Deleted that one and made a new one. It worked!
Next question (so sorry!)... That banner is left aligned. How to center it?

Thanks SO much again!

PS... I noticed that there is a tiny "blank banner" on everyone's user info when the custom field is blank. At end of red arrow below:

 

[Old Nick]

Post the code you use in message_macros and in extra.less templates.

 

[ForumFan]

Post the code you use in message_macros and in extra.less templates.

<div class="message-userDetails">
<h4 class="message-name"><xf:username user="$user" rich="true" defaultname="{$fallbackName}" itemprop="name" /></h4>
<xf:usertitle user="$user" tag="h5" class="message-userTitle" banner="true" itemprop="jobTitle" />
<xf:userbanners user="$user" tag="div" class="message-userBanner" itemprop="jobTitle" />
<span class="label label--lightGreen">{$user.Profile.custom_fields.userBanner}</span>

I haven't changed anything in "extra.less." I just looked. In the default style, it's blank. In the "Shades of Gray" style the following is seen in the "extra.less":
The little blank empty "banner" is there in both styles (dark / light) when on the site.
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width: 10px;
overflow: scroll;
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*::-webkit-scrollbar-track {
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background-color: #373737 !important;
border-radius: 20px;
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background: #444;
border-color: transparent !important;
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color: @xf-paletteAccent3;
background: @xf-paletteNeutral2;
border-color: @xf-paletteNeutral1;
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