i am building a website where many users will be able to add specific content. I want each content-node to have a link to the the authors profile page. I am using profile2 for users profiles and the alias of link in the node must be the "Company Name" field and not the username.
How can i achieve this?
Thank you!
Why don't you just use Views, and place that view towards the bottom of the article or that content type?
The views will be based on a user relationship with the node uid (the author's user id).
All those fields you require you can add to the user profile (admin/config/people/accounts/fields) - Company Name, Byline etc etc? And then display them via views.
create a template file for your content type, in your theme folder. it should be something like node--node_type.tpl.php . In that file you should have access to all the node's fields.
You can start by using the default node.tpl.php as an example. More about templates you can find here.
EDIT:
in your default node.tpl.php you could find something like this:
// this is taken from the omega theme
<?php if ($display_submitted): ?>
<footer class="submitted"><?php print $date; ?> -- <?php print $name; ?></footer>
<?php endif; ?>
so instead of print $name you could do something like print l('your custom field value', 'user/' . $node->uid)
