Allow adding other default profile fields to signup dialogue

[rahim123]

I’ve been using this tip What are best practices for encouraging / enforcing profile pics? to remind new users to fill in the “Location” field in their user profile. While I do appreciate the ability to customize the welcome message, it’s not working very well. Almost none of the new users that have signed up in Discourse have filled out their Location, whereas almost everyone that signed up at the forum that I migrated from had filled it in because it was shown as an optional field during the signup process. The forum has a large international userbase, and sometimes the answer to user questions depends on the location of the user that asked the question. Knowing the user’s location also helps other users to overlook some posts that could be taken as offensive, as the Location field helps to explain cultural differences. And I’ve even found it useful on many occasions when a suspected spammer makes a typical “Thanks great post!” first reply to get started, and they fill out their location as “New York” but with an IP address from Timbuktu.

I assumed from this post that the signup dialogue couldn’t easily be customized:

How to add profile fields to signup?

I’d like to add the profile fields ‘Location’ and ‘Website’ to the Signup modal. Is this possible?

But then I discovered that other users are even having trouble with too many custom fields appearing during signup:

Disabling Profile User Fields

You can do it with CSS. It’s a bit fussy because you have to do it with nth-of-type targeting to hide/display them (at least that was the solution that I found). Here. Something like this: .create-account .user-fields .user-field { display: none; &:nth-of-type(10){ display: block; } &:nth-of-type(8){ display: block; } &:nth-of-type(13){ display: block; } }

Custom user field is visible on signup page

Every new user field I create with these properties are now visible and editable on the signup page: [image] Older fields with the same properties are not. Can you help, please? I need the fields to stay invisble to the user. I’m on the last stable release.

Site setting to hide custom user fields from signup page

I thought that I had seen such a feature request recently, but I can’t find it. If you have a bunch of user custom fields, the login modal gets ugly. If there are 10 optional fields and 2 required fields, one has to scroll a bunch to find the one(s) that are required. This is a drag. It’s possible to hide those fields with CSS like: .create-account .user-fields .user-field { display: none; &:nth-of-type(4){ display: block; } } It’s something of a bother, as you have to…

So it seems kind of strange that custom fields can be displayed and made optional or required during signup, but default fields such as Location and Website apparently can’t. Am I misunderstanding something? Or if not could this feature be added? Thanks!

[Robin.Grant]

+1 on this! Pretty please etc…

[JammyDodger]

I’ve just replied to a similar post of yours on another topic, though I think the same applies here:

@JammyDodger

Could you go into a little more detail about why you like this idea, what your use case would be, and so on. Adding ‘+1’ isn’t all that helpful and doesn’t tend to progress the discussion.

Indeed, if you read our forum guidelines we encourage using the Like button in those situations where you’re only adding a ‘+1’

Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button.

Adding something substantive rather than simply a +1 or saying ‘pretty please’ would be much more meaningful.

[Robin.Grant]

OK fair enough

I’m also finding my beta users are signing up and filling in the custom fields that I’ve created, as they get shown them on sign-up, but I’m struggling to get them to fill in the standard profile fields, such as location, or to get them to upload a profile image.

It would be great to be able to choose what standard profile fields to present new users with in the sign-up form, along with the option of asking them to upload a profile image - I think this would drive much greater profile completion.

[rahim123]

Good to see that there have been improvements to the signup form:

3.3.0.beta4: Topic view stats, Signup Improvements, Better usercard positioning, and more

New features in v3.3.0.beta4 Topic view stats See the top 100 most viewed topics, configurable by date range, category, logged in and/or anonymous. Report is available under /admin/reports/topic_view_stats. [CleanShot 2024-07-11 at 15.13.16@2x] Signup Improvements Updated signup flow to include username after email (if active), optional fields indicated by sub text, renaming CTA to signup, and login and signup buttons being placed vertically. [image] Better usercard positioning Improved ac…

But the fact that some default user fields can’t appear on the registration form is a strange limitation. Is the refusal to allow this due to a technical or a philosophical reason?

How to add profile fields to signup?

No, that is not possible.

Require standard profile fields during registration?

No, they can’t be made mandatory. If you have strict enterprisey needs for sign up & login management, your best bet is to use an specific tool for that and SSO bridge it to Discourse.

[isaac (Isaac Janzen)]

You can take a look at

Discourse Authentication Validations

Summary Discourse Authentication Validations enables the ability to add custom validations to a User Field to toggle the display of User Fields on the Signup Modal. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-authentication-validations Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse About Discourse Authentication Validations adds the ability to add custom validations to a User Field. Custom User Fi…

It may fit your needs

[rahim123]

Hi @isaac, thanks for the reply. Interesting option, but unless I’m misunderstanding something that would still require creating an additional custom user field. The problem as far as I understand it is that Discourse by default comes with Location and Website fields, but there’s no way to present either of those two default fields on the new user signup form.

[isaac (Isaac Janzen)]

@rahim123

that would still require creating an additional custom user field

This is correct.

[rahim123]

Thanks. The problem is that I already have thousands of users that have filled out the default Location field, so I have to stick with that one. However the vast majority of those users that filled it out came from Drupal, which allowed me to present it as an optional field during user registration. Now in Discourse, most new users do not notice or fill out the optional fields after signup in their user profile.