Custom field in discourseconnect

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A user, Jay_Moore, is trying to pass custom user fields when signing on a user using DiscourseConnect. The fields, “Experience” and “State”, are not coming across. Falco suggests that custom fields created via Admin → Customize → User Fields should be passed as custom.user_field_NUMBER, not the actual field name.

Falco provides the correct syntax, and Jay_Moore confirms it works. However, Falco notes that DiscourseConnect does not currently support multi-select fields. Jay_Moore finds that while sending multiple values doesn’t work, sending a single value does.

Later, Jay_Moore has an issue with adding a user to groups using add_groups. Falco points out that the issue is due to a space between the commas in the group list.

1

I am trying to pass a custom user field when signing on a user.

Here is the array I am signing…

$parameters =  array(
            'nonce'       => $nonce,
            'external_id' => 'jay',
            'email'       => 'bugsbunny@betaclub.org',
            'username'    => 'bugsbunny@betaclub.org',
            'name'        => 'Bugs Bunny',
            'add_groups'  => 'state_sponsors',
            'custom.experience' => 'Pro',
           'custom.state' => 'FL',
        );

The field name is Experience, it is a multiselect field and one of the options is Pro
I am not seeing this come across? I also have a custom field named State, which is a Text Field. How do I troubleshoot this. I don’t see anything about the custom field in the logs with discourse connect logging turned on.

2

If you have created those fields via the Admin → Customize → User Fields, you need to pass it as

$parameters =  array(
            'nonce'       => $nonce,
            'external_id' => 'jay',
            'email'       => 'bugsbunny@betaclub.org',
            'username'    => 'bugsbunny@betaclub.org',
            'name'        => 'Bugs Bunny',
            'add_groups'  => 'state_sponsors',
            'custom.user_field_1' => 'Pro',
            'custom.user_field_2' => 'FL',
        );

The field names aren’t the name you set on the UI, but numbered fields named user_field_NUMBER.

3

That worked thanks so much.

Do you know how to populate a multi select field with multiple values?

‘custom.user_field_1’ => ‘Pro, Newbie’,

??

4

Curiously I was looking into this last week, and from the looks of it we do not support multi select fields via the DiscourseConnect payload at the moment.

7

Did some testing and it will populate a multi select field if only a single value is sent.
Does not work - ‘custom.user_field_1’ => ‘Pro, Newbie’,
Does work - ‘custom.user_field_1’ => ‘Pro’,

This is OK for our needs. If that field is editable by the end user they can add other selections as needed.

@Falco Thanks so much for the help

8

Next question is about add_groups. I have a comma delimited list, but it is not adding user to the groups.

$parameters =  array(
            'nonce'               => $nonce,
            'external_id'         => $sponsor['spid'],
            'email'               => $sponsor['email'],
            'username'            => $sponsor['email'],
            'name'                => $fullname,
            'add_groups'          => 'state_sponsor, status_sponsor, elect_sponsor',
            'location'            => $location,
            'custom.user_field_1' => $experience, //experience - Newbie, Less than 5, Pro, Old Timer
            'custom.user_field_2' => $club['name'].' ('.$sponsor['new_id'].')',  //school name with clubid
            'custom.user_field_4' => $division, //division
        );

The payload reported is:

add_groups=state_sponsor%2C+status_sponsor%2C+elect_sponsor
email=xxxx%40spart1.org
external_id=xxxx
name=Angela+Moore
nonce=xxxx
username=xxxx%40spart1.org
location=Landrum%2C+SC
custom.user_field_1=Pro
custom.user_field_2=Landrum+Middle+School+%28JSC0081%29
custom.user_field_4=Junior

In the logs for discouseconnect I see:

add_groups: state_sponsor, status_sponsor, elect_sponsor
admin: 
moderator: 
avatar_force_update: 
avatar_url: 
bio: 
card_background_url: 
email: xxxx@spart1.org
external_id: xxxxx
groups: 
locale: 
locale_force_update: 
logout: 
name: Angela Moore
nonce: xxxx
profile_background_url: 
remove_groups: 
require_activation: 
return_sso_url: 
suppress_welcome_message: 
title: 
username: xxxx@spart1.org
website: 
location: Landrum, SC

Which looks correct.
I would like to add this user to the ‘state_sponsor, status_sponsor, elect_sponsor’ groups.

9

You need to drop the space between the commas.