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.

Creating and Adding Values to `custom_fields` via API

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sam (Sam Saffron) July 30, 2018, 11:58pm 2

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?

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Creating and Adding Values to `custom_fields` via API

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