Possibly this has been affected by recent Discourse update (currently on 2.5.0.beta2). I have a multiselect dropdown feild that was previously set up and working, and set as editable after sign up etc but now for existing users while contents of this field are displayed in their user profile page, the field is not listed with the other editable custom user fields in their user preferences page. In other words there is no longer a way for user or administrator to change. Also, for new users signing up, while the mutiselect field is visible, none of the drop down options are now available/showing (just see a slim blank blue rectangle) - and because this is a set as a mandatory field, sign-up cannot proceed. Is this a known issue?, and is it confirmed that a Discourse update caused it? Is it known what the most recent compatible Discourse version is - and it there any sensible way to revert to it? I have posted a report to GitHub, but see that the plugin has not seen any development activity for a couple of years, so not optimistic that a solution will come from that direction. Are there any other (working) ways to achieve a multi-select dropdown for user fields in Discourse?

FYI there was a big upgrade to core’s Select Kit to version 2 in the last few months. This affected a number of plugins and specifically this kind of control. If this plugin has not been maintained since then it may indeed not work. Suggest you message the dev on here or post in its meta Topic if it exists? If they don’t respond and it’s important enough to you, post in #marketplace for a freelancer to pick it up?

Thanks - have messaged the only user on here who has similar username to the one on Github - hoping it is same person! Is it likely that those changes to core would necessitate significant re-work for plugins like this? I wonder why multiselect is not already part of core functionality?

It is. What has changed is the way the control is configured and used.

Thanks Robert. Very fortunately @j.jaffeux has just indicated he would be willing to fix the plugin - what an amazing community this is!

That’s great. It was his upgrade so he should be well placed!

@j.jaffeux thank you for the fix. I merged it :slight_smile:

Hi thank you both for an amazing response! I have updated both the plugin and Discourse to include latest changes, but issue with user profile page omitting drop down field remains for me. A possibly related issue is that in all cases, I have to click twice on the User Profile link on left hand side of User preferences page. The first click brings up the standard user fields only, and only the second click brings up the custom user fields as well - but excluding the multi-select field (unfortunately, clicking 3 times does not help) I have tried on several browsers, and cleared browser cache in each case I can confirm that new user signups can now see the drop down options however. Does this narrow the problem down?

Sure In the video, I highlight the multi-select field as it displays in user preferences page, but as you can see, despite clicking twice on ‘Profile’, that field does not appear, so is still not editable. A secondary issue you may notice, on the User Preferences page, is that there is no comma appearing between multi select items when there is more than one option applicable to the field for that user.

Multiselect user field plugin broken?

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j.jaffeux (Joffrey Jaffeux) 11 במרץ,‏ 2020,‏ 7:42am 7

This should fix it:

https://github.com/procourse/discourse-multiselect-user-field/pull/2

Someone at Procourse will have to merge it though

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