Continuing the discussion from Adding and editing user custom fields: [image]Adding and editing user custom fields Note that there can be other custom fields added by plugins, and they might have a strict structure, which I think is why this hasn’t been done. For the “private notes on a user” plugin, it wouldn’t exactly do to expose your ‘private’ notes to the moderators when they went to a user’s page. Would these fields even show up on user / admin pages I would have assumed it would only be the user_field_X which are added via the site/customize… I ask, because I’ve created a field called “subdomain” in the database directly, and it’s no where to be seen in the GUI (which is as I expect)

Good. So this isn’t a factor in what I’m whining asking for here

I ran into this problem and wasn’t sure if there was a better way to expose it under User’s preferences. plugin.rb 14c902199 public_user_custom_fields_setting = SiteSetting.public_user_custom_fields if public_user_custom_fields_setting.empty? SiteSetting.set("public_user_custom_fields", "date_of_birth") elsif public_user_custom_fields_setting !~ /date_of_birth/ SiteSetting.set( "public_user_custom_fields", [SiteSetting.public_user_custom_fields, "date_of_birth"].join("|") ) end class ::UserSerializer alias_method :_custom_fields, :custom_fields def custom_fields if !object.custom_fields["date_of_birth"] object.custom_fields["date_of_birth"] = "" object.save end _custom_fields end end Any thoughts?

@sam Could I get your thoughts on the above? Thanks :smile:

Well … any update on what ended up happening here :wink:

I ended up using a plugin outlet here. From what I know, we still don’t have a clean way for plugins to expose custom fields on the user preferences page.

[image] tgxworld: I ended up using a plugin outlet here. From what I know, we still don’t have a clean way for plugins to expose custom fields on the user preferences page. I’m trying to do the same … what would be a cleaner way?

Custom fields added by plugins - when would they be visible?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) March 21, 2015, 4:42am 2

Never, unless the plugin also adds UI for it.

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