Creating Multiple Membership Types

This tutorial describes how to have multiple sign-up forms with different questions. It also describes how to show different profile and listing pages depending on user's profile type.

Step 1: Define Common Questions for All Profiles

No matter what your profile types are, there will probably be some common questions on each sign-up form. For example: User Name, Password, E-mail, First Name, Last Name, etc. All these questions are common for each profile type so we need to have them in the regular profile form. No need to re-create them.

As you can see all questions are common for all profile types. If you need any other common questions (such as age or gender) for all users you can add them to the profile form.

Step 2: Add User Type Specific Questions

You should also add fields specific to a particular user type to your profile form. Here is the list of questions in our example:

Once you added these questions, click on them on the form editor and set their "Display On" property to "None". This will make them invisible on sign-up and update-info forms for now.

Step 3: Create Sign-up Forms

Our next step will be to create separate membership sign-up forms for each profile type. We will create an "employee_signup.html" page under the profile folder and put this code in it:

    {SET:accountName:employee}
    {FORM:profile:SHOW:proficiency,experience,skills}

When you publish your site, this will create a new sign-up form with default question and the additional questions for the employee. Now, let's do the same for the employers. Create a "employer_signup.html" file under the profile folder and put the code below:

    {SET:accountName:employer}
    {FORM:profile:SHOW:company:speciality,aboutCompany}

Step 4. Create Update Forms

Open "profile/profile_update.html" and change it to this:

    {IF:accountName:employee}
    
        {UPDATEFORM:profile:SHOW:proficiency,experience,skills}
    
    {IF:else}
    
        {UPDATEFORM:profile:SHOW:company:speciality,aboutCompany}
    
    {IF:end}

Step 5: Prepare the profile page

Employers and employees will have different information posted on their profile page. Let's do that using Memberkit's IF tags.
Here is the example:

    {IF:accountName:employee}
             Proficiency:          {proficiency}
             Experience:           {experience}
             Skills:               {skills}
    {IF:else}
             Company:              {company}
             Specialty:            {specialty}
             About your company:   {aboutCompany}
    {IF:end}

        

Step 6: Add Account Types

If you would like enable/disable various pages to particular member type, you should also add account types to the main profile account types table. To do that go to "Content Manager" on the left side and open Profile - Account Type grid. Then add "Employee" and "Employer" fields.

That's all. You now have multiple sign-up forms and profile types.

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