I run WebWiz 6 on a company intranet where employees of the company can communicate, get assistance, etc.  I coded this myself into the profile area on V6 but would love to see it as a standard option in future versions.

  In the profile area, I'd like to see an input for a "User Defined Fields"  option.  On the Admin menu, options for "enable user defined fields", and then an area to enter field names, etc. 

 In my case, we have 7 different departments using the forum for tech support and requisitions.  The first question we always have to respond with is "Which department are you with?" So I made a drop down to display the 7 options (departments) that we have (similar to the drop down for membership levels) and now the employee's department displays in the profile. 

 It would also be nice to have one Primary User Defined Field ( if there were more than one, the rest could display in the profile) that would display with the post on the left along with the membership level. 

  Perhaps in the Admin area, there could be a profile setup.  I list of user defined fields could be set up with check boxes for:

Enable UserDefined Field 1 (Primary)     Display with post   Yes   No

Enable UserDefined Field 2                  Display in Profile     Yes  No

Enable blah blah blah ad indinitum

 if Display in profile is selected, everyone can view it when the profile button is clicked for that user, but if NO is selected,  only the Admin and Mods can see it when they click the profile..

 Well, that's it,  some food for thought anyway.  It would be an extremely useful feature for me, just don't know if it would be a feature enough people would need to make the coding time worth it for you.

  David

What you are asking would not useful for most users when weighed against that such a feature would require a large amount of database fields to make it run, this would then lead to more server resources being used and a slower running forum. Also the type of data that the field would hold is also important as to which security filters would need to be used, if the field isn't correctly filtered then the forum could be left wide open to malicous code.

There is more fields in the new version of the forum so maybe one of those would be able to be used for what you require. I'm working on a member title for it at the moment that will be displayed below the avatar in posts and in the profile, this field could be used to enter the persons department into instead, all you would need to do is edit the langauge file so it says department next to it instead of Member title.

  Actually, duhhhh, I spent alot of time making this harder than it really was..  while my little  mod was pretty fun to mess with.... the easiest solution is so obvious it's ridiculous. Just edit the select_countries_list.inc to represent the departments.  Oh well, I guess it takes several  hours of driving aroung the block to get next door sometimes.