Contact Page does not display custom user profile fields

[amg99]

Description:
I created a custom user plugin to add Instant Messaging Fieldset to the user's profile (Skype, Google Talk etc.).

However, these information where not displayed on the contact page of users.

The built-in User Profile fields appear on the contact page when a value is entered.

But field values of custom-built user profile plugins are not shown on the said page.

Reported on:
Joomla 1.7.3

Related files:
Probably, the problem is with the files:
components/com_contact/views/contact/tmpl/default.php
components/com_contact/views/contact/tmpl/default_profile.php

[infograf768]

Have you used as example the plugin provided with core?

[amg99]

Hi,

Yes, I did use the plugin that came with the core. But it's field are the only ones that came out on the contact page.

I've attached the plugin I created based on the tutorial Creating a profile plugin.

I was expecting that the contact page template will "cycle" around available user plugins and publish their respective fieldsets (of course excluding "joomla" and "contactcreator" user plugins). But the default.php and default_profile.php files only inspects the profile plugin that came with the core.

[mcsmom]

You know, I think it would be good to rewrite that part of the code since it really is not using the plugin system at all.

[amg99]

You mean the com_contact part? I think so too.

When using the built-in user profile plugin in tandem with contact creator, information gathered by the profile plugin are not used to fill the entries for com_contact.