Copy profile from another clowdr instance

[jon-bell]

Clowdr is becoming popular, and it's becoming more common that attendees will have multiple profiles on Clowdr for different conferences. It is tedious to set up each profile (copying each field over). It would be great if there were an easy way to copy a user's existing profile between conferences.

[rossng]

It's important to consider the following:

• People may want to present a different view of themselves depending on the event they are attending (e.g. depending on whether it is a personal or professional interest)
• People may include private information in their profile at some (e.g. small) events, but a reduced set of information at larger events.

[jon-bell]

Researchr tackles this by having a "global profile" and a "per-event" profile - once you set a "global" profile, each new conference profile can automatically inherit from it, and then when you update your profile, you can click either "save for this conference only" or "save as my global profile", although I am not sure if this level of complexity is really needed for us.

[drpaulralph]

If you ask people to recreate their profile every time they join a clowdr event, or worse, make multiple profiles for the same event because the organizers are going to use different instances, people are going to feel that Clowdr is wasting their time. Or they'll think it's bugged and that they have multiple accounts because their profile's gone missing. The vast majority of people just use the same general profile everywhere, and chewing up their precious work days because someone might want some customization is the wrong good call. https://conf.researchr.org/ handles this issue well. You have "general" profile that you can modify for individual events. Hope this helps.