Gray McCord wrote:
> Plone 2.5.5 system.
> 
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> 
> I have a site that I had set up a while back configured with 
> membrane/remember.  It has been working just fine. I now want to add 
> some additional member fields to the plone defaults, such as phone 
> number. I thought I might be able to just create a sampleremember 
> product and add it to the site.  I created a product successfully and 
> tested it by creating a new site and adding users.  Worked just fine, 
> and my new phone field was searchable & addable.
> 
>  
> 
> OK, so now I tried to add it to the existing site, and it is not working 
> as I had hoped.  The problem is that the existing users are not being 
> offered the option to add the new phone field. New sampleremember 
> members seem to work OK, but I have been unable to migrate the existing 
> users.

yup.  when you change the default member type, it doesn't automatically 
migrate all of the existing members.  i'm afraid there's no out-of-box support 
for this at all.

> Any suggestions?

it's not that hard to write a content migration script.  i'd recommend making 
use of the contentmigration product, which provides a number of useful base 
classes that are very helpful:

http://www.contentmanagementsoftware.info/plone/content-migration

-r