Continuing the discussion from A tour of how the Widget (Virtual DOM) code in Discourse works : If I want to access something outside the scope of a widget that only has access to the User object, how would I do? I am specifically trying to show a custom_field beside the user’s name in a post. I wa…

Getting joined data for widget scope

eviltrout (Robin Ward) Avril 29, 2016, 3:13 5

That should definitely work. Just to confirm, you were viewing the user as a staff user right? That API only makes the custom field visible for staff users.

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Getting joined data for widget scope

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