<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Sorry for my late entry.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Any time you see the Profile module mentioned concerning D6 and before, automatically translate that to Profile2 in D7. (Big secret: Profile is still there.)<br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Then you might find the Migrate module useful for this.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>I can't imagine that you are talking about a huge amount of data here. I'd probably create a few manually, look at how the database stores those, and then probably write a quick little module to update the database directly. >From what I remember seeing this shouldn't be difficult.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Another approach would be to simply use </span><a
href="http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules%21user%21user.module/function/user_save/7">http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules!user!user.module/function/user_save/7</a><span> and stick the new fields into the $edit array.<br></span></div><div> </div><div><font color="#ff007f" face="bookman old style, new york, times, serif" size="4"><i><b>Nancy</b></i></font> <br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Dr. Martin L. King, Jr.</font></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Fred Jones</font><br></div><br>OK I also thought
custom code makes the most sense. But now I wonder<br>if these should be Users instead of a staff content type. In D7 they<br>should be extensible as entities I think. I suppose I could use<br>http://drupal.org/project/profile2 or create fields directly on the<br>user entity, but I don't know how to do that. Yet. :)<br><br>I see this http://drupal.org/node/993934 but I don't have Profile on<br>my site. Nor do I see that it's a core option.<br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>