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Getting Started: A Step by Step Tutorial

This tutorial shows how one can use these module for building profiles. It's written for the 5.x compatible nodeprofile 1.x releases. For drupal 4.7.x things are basically the same, however some urls pointing to some settings in the administration pages have changed. So you can apply this tutorial to 4.7.x too, but you have to find the mentioned administration pages on your own.

We 'll start with the basic and necessary steps. Then I'll describe some further possible steps, which are not necessary but useful to adapt it according to your preferences.

Step 1: Create your content type and set it as nodeprofile

Step 2a: Use the user categories integration

After your content type to be used with node profiles has been created, click its edit option on admin/content/types. You should see a tab

Step 2b: use Pageroute

The Pageroute module can be used to provide a user friendly wizard for creating and editing several nodes. So you can use the module to

Step 2c: use nodefamilies' url handler

[deprecated by 2a]

Step 3: extend the nodeprofile with further content types (optional)

If you want to build a nodeprofile, which consists of multiple content types, you should use pageroute to provide a user friendly way for

Step 4: Build a view that lists your profiles (optional)

This page shows you how you can create a view with the popular views module for your profiles.

Step 5: Use usernode for presenting multiple node profiles or user searches (optional)

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