Hi Everyone, hope you’re well & staying safe during these times.
I’ve just started using Wix, and am in the process of migrating my old website from Joomla over to Wix. I was going to post the links to both websites, so you guys can have a look, but seems I don’t have permission.
It’s a community site, and while I’ve finished building all the “aesthetics” of the site, I’m now trying to setup my members areas - specifically setting up member sign-up process, member profile page, member lists, member roles, and also migrate all my joomla members over.
I have read all the support document guides, and watched a whole bunch of youtube guides, but still seem to be stuck on a couple of basic things.
Here are my 1st couple of questions I’d really love to get answers / guidance on:
1. New Registrations linking to / populating my Content Manager Collection
So I’ve created a custom form for new visitors to complete when they sign-up to become a member on my site. I’ve included several custom fields in the form, and mirrored them in my contents where I’ve made a database. I’ve also successfully linked each field in my form, to those fields in my content manager database. I’ve tested creating an account, and it isn’t auto-populating in my database unfortunately. I’ve made sure the content collection is Live (not in sandbox), and also checked AFTER I approve the new user, but still, it doesn’t populate. I’m obviously missing something, but no idea what.
2. My Profile Page
I’m also trying to create a profile page, where once the member is approved & logged in, they can view all their details that they submitted in the registration form, which is populated in the collection. I’ve created a profile page using the template that comes with Wix, and linked my field sections to the collection, using “Owner” as the filter, so it only shows the info of the user who’s in “my profile” - however it just defaults to displaying the 1st person in my collections data. I’m not really sure what I’m doing here to be honest.
I’ve read / seen that you need to make a dynamic page for this, is that true? I don’t believe the profile page I’ve created is a “Dymanic” one. I’m very open to any advice I can get on this. I basically want users who are logged in, to be able to go to “My Profile” page, and view all their submitted details (as well as edit them). And for other visitors to the site to visit “Members” profiles, and view their info there too (but not be able to edit of course).
Hope you can help steer me where I’m going wrong, thanks!
I have a few other questions all related to managing members, but let’s get these 2 out the way, then we can move onto others haha. Again, I HAVE tried to teach myself over the last week, by watching videos, reading guides, and experimenting myself, but these are a couple of things where I’ve hit a wall. I also haven’t even figured out how to “assign roles” to my members, but lets cross that bridge later haha.
Thanks in advance for the help!
Tom