Custom user fields not available in api

[markschmucker (Mark S)]

I define a new user custom field:

User.find_each do |user|
  user.custom_fields['foo'] = 0
  user.save_custom_fields
end

That works- now each user has 8 custom fields:

[18] pry(main)> User.find(1).custom_fields
=> {
 "patreon_id"=>"83297319",
 "last_chat_channel_id"=>32,
 "last_digest_special_post"=>"275200",
 "last_digest_favorite_post"=>"279347",
 "example_field"=>"new value",
 "ai_bot_query_count"=>"0",
 "ai_bot_query_date"=>"2025-01-12",
 "foo"=>"0"}

Data Explorer sees the new field:

SELECT * from user_custom_fields
WHERE name LIKE '%foo%'
LIMIT 10

Now I want to use the foo field in javascript. I add some code at /admin/customize/themes/3/common/head_tag/edit. But only 2 of the 8 show up:

api.getCurrentUser().custom_fields

{
  last_chat_channel_id: 32,
  ai_bot_query_count: '0'
}

What am I missing?

[Moin]

Did you add your user fields to the public user custom fields site setting?

Adding non-visible user custom fields to the API

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[markschmucker (Mark S)]

Thanks, that did the trick.

One more question- are these custom user fields a different thing?:

Creating and configuring custom user fields

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