Hi, possibly caused by a recent update in Discourse version (now on 2.5.0 beta2), I can no longer edit user custom fields for users (even though all are still marked as ‘editable after signup’ in the customize menu) - and I cannot even edit my own custom fields as administrator. The existing contents of the fields still display, but without the pencil/edit icon. I see I also can’t edit anyone’s email address (including my own), which will be problematic for people who change email providers then forget their login password Am I missing something or is this a bug?

I don’t it was ever editable from this screen. However you can edit it from: /u/USERNAME/preferences/profile (for custom fields) /u/USERNAME/preferences/account (for email)

Thanks Joffrey Weirdly, while I can find and edit the email address by clicking on ‘account’, custom fields for me don’t show up when I click ‘profile’. Only the default fields are displayed. If I then click the ‘Normal’ menu (without selecting any of the drop down options) , some but not all custom user fields sometimes appear (but often don’t). If the custom fields are showing and I refresh my browser, they disappear, until I click on the ‘Normal’ menu button again. In particular a field that uses the discourse-multiselect-user-field plugin does not ever appear. If editing my own user account as administrator, there is no ‘Normal’ menu to click on, but I get a similar temporary effect by clicking on the ‘Expand’ (or ‘Collapse’) button. I don’t imagine this behavior is deliberate? A second issue/request is that I think that all these fields should be editable directly from wherever they are displayed to the user or admin - seems unnecessarily labyrinthine and not especially intuitive to disallow this, especially if there are a lot of accounts to manually update, or if user is not very familiar with where settings are buried within the interface.

Fantastic!! That would be much appreciated. Happy to test anything it that helps. **Edit - if this is not too cheeky a question, do you have a rough sense of how long it might take? I have naively been telling my existing MyBB users that their new Discourse based forum will go live on 15 March (before I discovered this issue)

User custom fields are no longer editable

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j.jaffeux (Joffrey Jaffeux) March 11, 2020, 6:10am 4

I will fix that plugin.

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