- Beardie name(s)
- Cailyth, Pinky, & Brain
I think there are two types of questions... there are the more general questions that are not specific to an illness or symptoms. And then there are the questions about specific symptoms.
For the questions that I was initially thinking about, it was the more general. The information they enter would be attached to their user profiles and I envisioned being applicable to any ongoing issues someone comes back with. They will have their initial issue (as most do when they first come), but I am hoping that they update that info so for subsequent questions, we can still reference it. So, for this info, I was envisioning setup info mostly... size of beardie would be good too... instead of age, I'd think maybe estimated birthday, so it is applicable beyond date of first post.
Questions like details about the poop I think starts going more down symptoms that can vary often. So, if it was captured, it can be out of date fairly quickly. I can look into custom post fields, possibly for specific forums (not sure how granular they can be defined/assigned.
I've setup some test custom profile fields to demonstrate what I was thinking about. If you click on your username on the upper right and click "Account Details" (or click that link here), you'll see the new fields listed (i.e. Enclosure Dimensions). At the moment, those are just for testing, so anything entered will be removed when I reset it. But you can test and see. I'm also playing with having it display with posts, but suspect it may be too verbose/too much info for the space.
And you can see on the left... I filled in all of the fields, but selected just the "Beardie Names" one to show up next to posts. To see all of the fields, click to my User Profile, and go to the About tab.
For the questions that I was initially thinking about, it was the more general. The information they enter would be attached to their user profiles and I envisioned being applicable to any ongoing issues someone comes back with. They will have their initial issue (as most do when they first come), but I am hoping that they update that info so for subsequent questions, we can still reference it. So, for this info, I was envisioning setup info mostly... size of beardie would be good too... instead of age, I'd think maybe estimated birthday, so it is applicable beyond date of first post.
Questions like details about the poop I think starts going more down symptoms that can vary often. So, if it was captured, it can be out of date fairly quickly. I can look into custom post fields, possibly for specific forums (not sure how granular they can be defined/assigned.
I've setup some test custom profile fields to demonstrate what I was thinking about. If you click on your username on the upper right and click "Account Details" (or click that link here), you'll see the new fields listed (i.e. Enclosure Dimensions). At the moment, those are just for testing, so anything entered will be removed when I reset it. But you can test and see. I'm also playing with having it display with posts, but suspect it may be too verbose/too much info for the space.
And you can see on the left... I filled in all of the fields, but selected just the "Beardie Names" one to show up next to posts. To see all of the fields, click to my User Profile, and go to the About tab.
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