Anyone have any experience making the community meet COPPA requirements? I want to require the applicant to select their birthdate prior to joining. I have made it so that the birthday selector is on the join page, but I'm having trouble making it a required field. It will not work asp.net validators and I can't seem to find the element using javascript...any ideas?
Which version of Community Server are you using?
How have you added the birthdate selector to the page?
CS 2007.
I did add a birthdate selector to the page. I tried to validate that the user selects a birthdate and couldn't get it to work. Any suggestions for making sure people select a birthdate? I would like to set the text portion to "select.." and only allow the join button to enable after a selection has been made. Unfortunately, I had no luck... Any thoughts?
So the, any idea how to make it required?
The <CSControl:CreateUserForm /> control does not support specifying the birth date so adding a <TWC: DateTimeSelector runat="server" id="Birthday" DateTimeFormat="MMMM d, yyyy" ShowCalendarPopup="true" /> control will not save the birth date information.
I'd suggest implementing a sub-form control (see example here: http://docs.communityserver.org/wiki/page.aspx/312/how-to-extend-user-registration-using-sub-forms/) that supports specifying the birthdate for newly created users and implements the proper validation. To ensure that the value of the DateTimeSelector is set, you can override the IsValid() method of the base sub-form control and check the value of the birthdate DateTimeSelector, returning false if it is not set.
I have needed to do this, and have been attempting it on and off for some time now. I'm affraid it's beyond my limited programming skills. Has anybody out there been able to do this?
You'll need to implement this as a Subform. For an example of how to write a subform to work, CommunityServer.Controls.PostTagsSubForm may be useful as an example.
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Yeah, I was able to do a subform for my country dropdown, but I can't get birthdate to work.
NorthlandSticks:but I can't get birthdate to work.
What didn't work?
Because the birthdate is set on the user's profile, and the profile is created when the user is saved, the setting of the birthdate will need to occur when the ApplyChangesAfterCommit() method of the sub-form is called. In the example on the docs.cs.org site, this method is not used, but its definition is the same as ApplyChangedBeforeCommit() with regards to the name change.
I guess I just don't know the right way to include that birthdate control in my subform.
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