With the Profile Form (Education Edge) part, you can create profile forms for students, individuals, and faculty/staff to update their biographical, address, and contact information. You select the fields of information to appear in each section of the form. You can include relationships so users can update information for family members. The user can specify whether profile items are public, where all users can view it, or private, where only the user can view it. We recommend you use the profile form on password-protected pages only.
When you create Directory parts, you can link the directory to another page. If the linked page contains an Profile Form (Education Edge) part, users can click a field in the directory listing to view the profile for the selected person and his relations. When a profile form is linked to a directory, users can edit their own profile but not those for relations. For more information about the Directory part, see Directory (Education Edge).
Note: When users update their profiles, the changes appear in profile displays or directory listings automatically, even before the changes are downloaded to The Raiser's Edge.
To verify that a user accessed a profile and confirmed its accuracy, such as for parents who must check their child’s profile each year as part of enrollment, we recommend you add a required Yes/No attribute type to The Education Edge, such as “Information is accurate.” Parents can view the profile, make changes as required, and select the checkbox for “Information is accurate.” To clear the checkbox for the next enrollment period, you can run a global change for the attribute.
Note: Only attributes that are marked Unique? or use a Table data type in The Education Edge Configuration are available in Blackbaud NetCommunity.
With the NetCommunity plug-in, you can update the The Education Edge database with changes users make on the profile form. For more information, see Profile Updates.