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Hi.

Working on a site where i have to relate 2 users to each other in a buddy system type setup.

Wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to set that up?

Ideally I was hoping for a custom member profile field, which did relational field populated with the members list, but there’s only text field, textarea, and dropdown. I suppose I can just register all the users, and then make the drop down list from that, but would rather have the list populated from the members in the db.

Another possibility is creating the buddy sets in the member groups area, but I feel like that would be a work around, rather than the right way to do it.

just looking for suggestions, or pointers to where i should be looking for more info that might help.

m.

ok, another possibility i found is the PM address book. Seems work around ish, since I would have to type in each user screen name, and then strip out the address book modification functionality in the live site. (hvent found a way to just turn off that functionality yet in the prefs)

still open to any other ideas.

bump?

There is no obvious solution without custom coding, I am afraid.

Solspace’s User Module, allows you to categorize users using Category Groups.
If putting them in the same category is “grouping them” enough for you, that might be work checking out.

Leevi Graham’s LG Member, allows you to select members in entries, so if you’re relating two members in the context of an entry (game = player 1, player 2, score, etc) this might work as well.

For the forum module, somebody once suggested to rename and make good use of the “ignore member” feature.

Thanks. I’ll check out how those modules work.
As well as look to making use of the ignore member feature - that could work well since this is for a closed system, small community & moderated on one level, so there will be no real need to ignore anyone

thanks for the suggestions!
m.