XF 2.1 Non-updated profile field on post

[Wyvh]

Greetings,
Actually, the 'system' works like that:

User1 fills Profilefield1, which now has as content Content1. Now, if User1 replies on thread X, we will see Profilefield1 filled with Content1.
So if User1 changes the content Profilefield1 to Content2, every threads will show his Profilefield1 filled with Content2, regardless of when the replies have been posted.

I'd like to do the following but can't find how :

> User1 fills Profilefield1, which now has as content Content1. Now, if User1 replies on thread X, we will see Profilefield1 filled with Content1.
> User1 changes the content Profilefield1 to Content2, but every posts of User1 will show his Profilefield1 filled with Content1., but any new message posted after the Profilefield1 changes to Content2 will, this time, show Content2.

Dunno if it's clear. tldr; if you posted and you had this 1 profile field filled with "xx", the post will forever have "xx" shown, even after edits.
Any idea ?

Thanks.

 

[Wyvh]

Oy,
Bumpy.

 

[sbj]

So you want that profilefields show their old contents for old threads (thread in their time period) and after an update of the profilefield, it then only should show the new contents for the newest replies?

I am not sure if the database programatically logs every profilefield contents, so even old ones which were used before.

Even if it does log that, there is no setting in XF which lets you to do what you want to achieve.

You would need custom development for that.

I am curious, why would you need such an odd setup in first place? Why not make use of threads/posts? Threads/posts keep old messages and you can update them like you want.

 

[Wyvh]

Hey,
To be specific, this is forum a RPG forum of mine. My goal was to show the character's inventory as when each post published would show the inventory at this time.

 

[sbj]

With profile field you mean custom user fields, right? Like showing on here?


So people are constantly updating their custom user fields or what?

The only alternative to custom development would be to use custom thread fields. So anytime people create a new thread, for that thread specific thread the custom thread fields would be stored like you want. And for new threads you can choose other content for the thread fields.

 

[Wyvh]

For example, yeah.

I'll take a look.
Thank you