The Problem : If you would use JomSocial for a school website you like different types of profiles for students, teachers and other staff. Obviously the fields used in the teacher's profile are going to be different from the fields in the student's profiles. OR You are running a music producer page and you want to have songwriters, bands, producers, singers and so on. Again the fields in one profile need not be meaning full for other user types.

JoomlaXi Solution :

To resolve the above problems,  JoomlaXi team will come with a very well recognized and robust extension for JomSocial. It extends JomSocial with Multiple Profile Types functionality.

Features:

• User can be categorized into Types called ProfileTypes
• You can create unlimited number of ProfileTypes
• Every field of Profile can be assigned to any number of profiles-type or to ALL
• Every ProfileType can be assigned a
  • Template
  • Default Privacy Settings
  • Joomla User Type.
  • Default Avatar
  • Admin Approval Required
  • Allow Template
• Individual templates : Right now user cannot select the template. Only administrator assign templates for particular type of users. By implementing Individual templates, user can select their own template.
• Admin Approval : Allow admin to select which profile type needs admin confirmation.
• Paid subscription feature can be implmented using AEC, JSPT blends very well with AEC.
• Access Control Layer for JomSocial, restrict the features quanitity as per user's profiletype.