Import with custom fields / registration form

Hi

We have a set of existing users that were tracked in another database that we want to import into our current installation that uses s2member. I was wondering whether I can use the Import tool to do the import. However, if I add custom fields to facilitate this import, my question is will they necessarily show on the Registration form?

Is there a way to import these existing users with these custom fields without them showing up in the Registration form? The old system had metadata attached to each user that we don’t want to show up in the Registration form.

Thanks
Colin

Hi Colin,

Yes, when you create Custom Registration/Profile fields, you can specify whether that field is hidden during registration in the Allow Profile Edits option. Is that what you’re looking for?

YES! Excellent! One more question – the site is currently live. Any advice regarding the import? What should I be aware of / look out for?

About the import, I’d first create a test user with all the custom profile fields having a value, and then do an export so you can see the format you need to use.

The custom profile fields in s2Member’s import tool follow a format that’s less usual, so having an example to follow will be useful.

Also, no email will be sent to users automatically on import, keep that in mind because you’ll need to email them by some other mean to let them know about the account.

And you can import a password, which you need to tell the user about, or you can leave the field blank, in which case you need to point the user to the “lost password” tool so they have WordPress email one to them.

I hope that helps! :)