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HELP: How to set home airport and aircraft

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I am trying to add my home airport and aircraft to my profile and the map. However, I am unable to figure out to do it. I was trying to do it on the Control Panel. Could anyone point me the right direction here?

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Re: HELP: How to set home airport and aircraft

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Interesting! I see how to change it from the Admin console, but I can't find any other way in the user profile to set the "custom profile fields". :scratch: If you want to send me the edits you want to make via PM, I will fix your profile, but we will have to wait for Chris or Kai to chime in on how a user can change these fields...
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Re: HELP: How to set home airport and aircraft

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There doesn't seem to be any place to set the Home Airport any more, even in the Admin settings. And checking the box that you OWN a Diamond aircraft and entering a registration number in the profile still shows "Diamond Aircraft Owner? No" when you click on the username. Sorry, but I'm not sure where the disconnect is...
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Re: HELP: How to set home airport and aircraft

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It looks like the way custom fields are handled changed when the site was updated to version 3.x of phpBB. I don't understand yet why the User Control Panel doesn't allow editing the fields, but for users who were active before the switchover, their information doesn't even seem to be in the right table yet, so I'll have to fix that as well.
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Re: HELP: How to set home airport and aircraft

Post by dgger »

Chris, that would explain it. I just went back to the profile section to see, if I can find the check box for owning an aircraft Rick had mentioned - to no avail.

Please, don't bother to put too much effort into this. I really appreciate you guys operating the forum as it is.
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Re: HELP: How to set home airport and aircraft

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I've fixed a portion of this so that you should now be able to edit your aircraft registration and location information from Control Panel -> Profile -> Edit Profile. The World map still needs a bit of tweaking to pick up its info from a new location, so I'll post another update once I think that is working again. Currently it is still using data from an earlier incarnation of the forum.
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Re: HELP: How to set home airport and aircraft

Post by rwtucker »

Not a big deal Chris but I noticed that the profile accepts only a single aircraft registration via an 8 character limit.
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