As part of our work on Discourse 1.4 I spent some time enhancing user fields:
Dropdowns
One of our most requested featured for user fields was dropdowns, so now you can add them. The options can even be dragged and dropped for reordering!
Field ordering
For some users it was very important to display the fields in a particular order. In the latest Discourse builds, you can reorder the fields. Just use the up and down arrow buttons, and the fields will be displayed in the same order when the user signs up.
Doesnāt seem actually working (In v1.4.0.beta8 +9). In the actual login dialog, users only see āPick an optionā, twice (see snapshot below). For required fields, they see no options instead.
Weāre looking for this too. In our case though itās for users to include their social profiles.
For URLs to work well however and not be abused, we really need to be able to specify a prefix so as to lock down the domain and have them just specify a username. Otherwise they could put any link in there.
Is this something youāre already considering @eviltrout?
This is not something we are considering at this time. People can add URLs via the āAbout Meā field, and we have significant protection in that field.
@steve_pd Yes, this would be perfect. Weād love to add social media too and saying what the domain would be (or even having that part non-editable) would be a fantastic solution. That would take care of having to moderate these closely as well.
@codinghorror - people in our community simply do not offer that information without prompting. Since adding those custom fields we have a lot more āopt-inā to sharing those profiles. I very much hope youāll reconsider this.
I love these changes @eviltrout - thanks for paying attention to custom user fields which can be massively useful.
A feature request: would it be possible to set a user field to be used for the userās title? Iād like to fill it with the name of the userās affiliated organization as a link to their organization profile, as populated via SSO.
I can see others using it similarly to display some useful bit of info on user cards and profiles that is otherwise not standard in discourse.
@eviltrout Sorry to insist, but did you notice my bug report? Am I the only one seeing this bug? This feature will be very important for me in a couple of months ā we plan to use it to schedule ~500 first-year students (we plan to use Discourse as the course forum, and to have them register on Discourse to also access other services).
That forum is mostly in German, but: that screenshot was after setting the locale back to English, and I think also fields created after switching locale are affected (I might have to recheck). The forum was also first created with an English locale.
Since (Iām guessing) the feature works for you, Iāll try to dig deeper.
Besides selects, I think a repeatable field would be useful. Think like āsocial networksā: add facebook, add twitter, add whatever. It makes little sense to have a list of 50 social networks (i exaggerate, obviously!) fields into profile page (and on signup page).
On the other hand, this will make a bit harder badge assignment for filling a certain field, no?
Iām working with @bstudios and @Blaisorblade. We reproduced the bug by enabling login required. Then, the data about dropdown user field options is not preloaded when nobody is logged in. For example, when registering ā¦
Since this might be a security concern and I am limited in my knowledge of the guardian, I think it is important that some knowledgable people review the change carefully.
Great feature! Iāve noticed that the position field only applies to the sign-up page, but not the /users/{username}/preferences page. Is there any way to have the position field respected on that page, too? As it is, it seems that the position of the custom field on /users/{username}/preferences is a function of the order in which the custom fields were created. Does that sound right?
