Create membership custom fields

Backend Set-up

Head to Components >> RSMembership! >> Memberships and click on the Custom Fields button associated with a membership.

By doing so, you will be presented with the following layout:

This is the membership custom fields listing. It can also be accessed by heading to Components >> RSMembership! >> Membership Custom Fields but, because you have done so by clicking the Custom Fields button that is associated with a certain membership, you will see the listing filtered and only showing the fields that correspond to that membership. As illustrated above, click on New to create a new custom field for that membership. This is what you'll see next:

That's the new custom field addition layout. The following parameters can be configured for each field:

• Published: Yes / No - publish or unpublish the field.
• Membership: Choose the membership. If you access the layout as explained in this guide, the membership will be automatically selected.
• Custom Field Name: Set an internal name for the custom field.
• Label: Set a label (caption) for the custom field, that will be visible in the frontend.
• Type: Choose a field type - Custom HTML / Text box / Text Area / Select List / Multiple Select List / Checkbox Group / Radio Group / Calendar / Hidden Field.
• Values: The custom field's value. Multiple values (for dropdowns, checkboxes and radio groups) must be specified on separate lines.
• Additional Attributes: specify additional HTML attributes for the field (e.g. style="display:none;")
• Required: Yes / No - set to Yes in order to mark the field as Required
• Validation Rule: Choose a validation rule for the field - None / Alpha/ Alphanumeric / Numeric / Email / Website.
• Validation Message: Set the message that gets displayed if the field fails validation.

Considering the information above, we will create a radio group called age in which the users will select which of the 4 defined age groups (14-19 / 20-25 / 25-30 / 31 and older) they correspond to:

After adding the field, the listing of custom fields associated with our membership will look like this:

Reordering the membership custom fields requires firstly to select the membership from the filter options area.

Translating the Custom Field

If, let's say, you are also using French as a second frontend language and wish to have a French translation for the field, please follow these steps:

• Edit the /languages/fr-FR/fr-FR.com_rsmembership file.
• Add, anywhere within the file, AGE="Âge" and save the changes.

Frontend Appearance

There are 2 places in the frontend where this field will show up:

Membership Subscription Form

When subscribing to the membership that the field is associated with, the field will be present in the membership's subscription form, as shown below:

Show Subscriber's Memberships

This menu item lists all of the memberships that are associated with the logged-in user's account. Clicking on the newly added membership will list the following information:

As you can see, the custom field's label, along with the value you selected when subscribing to it, are being displayed here.