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Hi All,

I have a situation wherein I have 2 different Power Pages within a single environment, and each Power Page requires a different set of fields on the Profile Page.

Using the out-of-the-box Profile screen within Power Pages I can see how it is possible to customise the template that changes the content surrounding the Profile form, however it appears to me that Power Pages is hardcoded to use the "Profile Web Form" within the Contact table as the form to update a users profile, and this cannot be customised for individual sites.

As such, if I update the Profile Web Form to meet the specific field requirements of one of my Power Pages, it seems unavoidable that the update also appears in my other Power Pages instance, which I am trying to avoid.

Can anyone please advise if it is possible to change the form referenced in the Profile page to a custom form (or any other way to have 2 different forms on the Profile page of 2 different sites in the same environment)?

Thanks,

Jeremy.

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Lucas001 2,434 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @jwohling,

I don't know if it would be somehow possible to integrate another form inside the profile page as it always refers to the profile web form as you mentioned.

One way, but that only works if you have to pages, is to use one page with the "old" portal and one with the enhanced data model as this one would use the profile web form (enhanced). Keep in mind that using that thechnique you will face some other problems depending on what you do inside the page.

Another way to go, and I don't like it but it would work. Create the form and add all fields you want to have in both forms. Than .hide() the fields with javascript using the webtemplate for the profile page in each page. For mandatory fields which are necessary in one but not in the other profile page, prepopulate the field using .val() and .hide() it afterwards.

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Hi @jwohling ,
The easiest solution would be to create a custom Profile page and create a specific form for each site. This way you will have full control over it.

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jwohling 4 on at

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Thanks all.

We are currently considering both custom profile page, and hiding fields options mentioned above. At present our application is largely custom and we were hoping to use as much out-of-the-box Power Pages functionality as possible, with the Profile page being one of the few remaining examples of this, but a custom Profile page is looking inevitable at this stage.

I was hoping I was missing something, that there must be a reference to the "Profile Web Form" within the Profile template somewhere that could be updated to something different as this seems to be an odd "hardcoding" within Power Pages, but based on the responses to my post I am guessing this is not the case.

Unfortunately using the enhanced data model is not an option for us, as the apps are important enough that we do not want to use Preview features, and when/if this comes out of preview both sites will likely adopt it.

Thanks all,

Jeremy.

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Lucas001 2,434 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @jwohling,

could you just close your thread, so that others don't have to search for a solution.

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