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

[watchmanmonitor (Allen Hancock)]

Continuing the discussion from Adding and editing user custom fields:

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)

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Never, unless the plugin also adds UI for it.

[watchmanmonitor (Allen Hancock)]

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

[tgxworld (Alan Tan)]

I ran into this problem and wasn’t sure if there was a better way to expose it under User’s preferences.

https://github.com/tgxworld/discourse-cakeday/blob/14c902199a236026c3c67a3f99027fe063226363/plugin.rb#L11-L31

Any thoughts?

[tgxworld (Alan Tan)]

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

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Well … any update on what ended up happening here

[tgxworld (Alan Tan)]

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.

[merefield (Robert)]

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?