Profile custom options

Description

During the company-onboarding process, Implementation /wiki/spaces/Fuse/pages/841973932 and /wiki/spaces/Fuse/pages/842399893 of all users on the company instance to the specific needs of the company. From their Edit profile screens, users can then provide important details, such as their name and location.

When customising profile fields, Implementation can choose to map a profile field to a Custom option. This allows admins to provide their own custom options to the profile field using Profile custom options on the Admin dashboard. For example, for a Location profile field mapped to Custom option, an admin could add options for London, Cape Town, and Beijing. The custom options appear as a dropdown when the profile field is selected.

Instructions

To apply custom profile options to previously-created custom profile fields:

1. On the Admin dashboard, go to Profile custom options.
   The Profile Fields screen appears. The following image displays two custom profile fields, Role and Location.
   
2. On the Profile Fields screen, click a profile field.
   The Profile field: [label] screen appears.
   
3. On the Profile field: [label] screen, click Add option.
   An empty field appears.
   
4. In the empty field, enter an option. In the image below, London is entered as an option for the Location profile field.
   
5. If you want to add more options, click Add option and repeat the previous step as necessary. In the image below, several options are entered as options for the Location profile field.
   
6. Click Save.
   The custom profile options are applied to the custom profile field. Users can select the custom profile options by clicking the custom profile field dropdown on the Edit profile screen.
   

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