How can users write a bio on their profile page?

Question

I'd like my users to be able to write a bio on their profile page. Therefore, I added a long text field called 'Bio' to the user accounts. I created a view that shows the user's bio and wanted to add a link to only let the user edit his/her bio. Unfortunately, I only found a link that redirects the user to a page where he/she can edit his/her whole profile - which isn't exactly what I want.

Did I miss something?

I tried to solve this in another way. I created a content type called 'Bio' and a rule that creates a 'Bio' node with title My bio automatically when a user is created. Users don't have permission to add another bio, but they can edit their own 'standard' one. Now, I don't want the title field to be displayed on the edit form, because I'd like the titles to remain My bio.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

Re: the second/existing option, if you have a custom module already, could do a form_alter() on the node form to remove the title field. Or, you could look into the auto_nodetitle module that does this for you:

"auto_nodetitle" is a small and efficient module that allows hiding of the content title field in the form. To prevent empty content title fields one can configure it to generate the title by a given pattern.

When the token module is installed it's possible to use various node data for the auto generated title - e.g. use the text of a CCK field (since 5.x).

Advanced users can also provide some PHP code, that is used for automatically generating an appropriate title.

If instead you wanted to stay/go back to the first option, you could create a menu link/path like user/%/edit/bio that presents the user_profile_form that has been form_alter()ed to show only the bio field based upon the fact that it was called from this new path.