I am curious if there is any way to create and update Custom user fields (ie users >> custom_field) via the discourse API? Accessing custon_fields - Discourse’s docs show how to access custom_fields via GET https://discourse.example.com/users/{username}.json. . Updating user_fields - This discussio…

[image] Curtis_Kephart: Is the best course of action to create a user_field and hide it on sign-up vis css? Short of a plugin I think that is your only option here.

This it tricky, the field needs to be whitelisted can you add it to /admin/customize/user_fields or is this field meant to be completely hidden from users?

The desired field would need to be completely hidden to users. (The current use-case is a set of user-specific statistics calculated outside of discourse - those metrics will be used to rank-order users listed on a groups page) I realize user_fields has options for a field the user would only see o…

When updating the custom fields via the API, use the custom fields ‘number’ and not it’s name. If ‘test-val’ were the first field you created, the data line of your script would be: -d '{ "user_fields": { "1": "0.1" } }'

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sam (Sam Saffron) July 31, 2018, 7:39am 4

Short of a plugin I think that is your only option here.

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