Updating User Profile Field REST Endpoint

There is some info here on how to set profile fields in rest.  https://community.telligent.com/community/archive/f/developer-forum/1071020/update-a-users-profile-field/1356830#1356830.  You should be using the user update rest endpoints to update a user's profile fields.

I'm not talking about updating the user. I want to update the profile field choices from JavaScript/JQuery code. i.e the Select box choices in Admin > Membership > Profile Fields

The documentation for UserProfileFields is incorrect (its actually the documentation for UserProfileFieldGroups endpoints).

UserProfileField Update has the following parameters

Name (string)

Title (string)

FieldTypeId (int) - look in cs_Profile_FieldTypes in database for these ids

FieldTypeChoices (string) - use format _FieldTypeChoices_VALUE = LABEL

IsSearchable (bool)

So you would pass them in like this:

data: {

_fieldtypeChoices_{countryname1}: countryvalue1

_fieldtypeChoices_{countryname2}: countryvalue2

_fieldtypeChoices_{countryname3}: countryvalue3
},

The documentation for UserProfileFields is incorrect (its actually the documentation for UserProfileFieldGroups endpoints).

UserProfileField Update has the following parameters

Name (string)

Title (string)

FieldTypeId (int) - look in cs_Profile_FieldTypes in database for these ids

FieldTypeChoices (string) - use format _FieldTypeChoices_VALUE = LABEL

IsSearchable (bool)

So you would pass them in like this:

data: {

_fieldtypeChoices_{countryname1}: countryvalue1

_fieldtypeChoices_{countryname2}: countryvalue2

_fieldtypeChoices_{countryname3}: countryvalue3
},

Thanks, but It doesn't seem to like the curly braces in _fieldtypeChoices_{countryname1}: countryvalue1

Mathew D'Amico said:

_fieldtypeChoices_{countryname1}: countryvalue1

Ok, so you probably meant without the braces, right? Isn't there a way to do it dynamically as there are a lot of countries, and I will be doing the same for regions and cities?

Yes, without the braces.  Add the countries to the data object with a loop.  Then just the set data in your rest call to that object.

I thought it was working, but apparently not. How do I add the countries to the data object within a loop?

I've tried         

 data._FieldTypeChoices_+context.countryname = context.country   

and

 data.'_FieldTypeChoices_'+context.countryname = context.country  

within the loop, but It doesn't seem to like it.

Here is an example adding 2 dynamically named fields to the data object.  You will just need to do the same with a loop adding all the dynamically named fields.

var data = { IsSearchable: false };

//loop start here
var country = '_FieldTypeChoice_' + 'country1';
data[country] = 'value1';

country = '_FieldTypeChoice_' + 'country2';
data[country] = 'value2';

//loop end here


console.log(data);

Actually, I don't want to update it in a loop as previously stated. I want to update it with the name and value of the Country select box each time a user fills out and submits the form. 

The problem is that my code is overwriting the previously saved name and value with the current one, instead of adding to it. Here is the code that is called each time a user submits the form:

_saveCountry = function(context) {
    var data = {};   
    var countryName = $("select.country").children("option:selected").text();
    var iso2 =  $(context.country).val();
    var country = '_FieldTypeChoices_' + iso2;
    data[country] = countryName;
	return $.telligent.evolution.put({
	    url: jQuery.telligent.evolution.site.getBaseUrl() + 'api.ashx/v2/userprofilefields/Country.json',
	    data: data
    }); 
		     
},

You need to provide the entire list on each update.  You cannot just add an item.