Possibly this has been affected by recent Discourse update (currently on 2.5.0.beta2). I have a multiselect dropdown feild that was previously set up and working, and set as editable after sign up etc but now for existing users while contents of this field are displayed in their user profile page,…

Thanks - have messaged the only user on here who has similar username to the one on Github - hoping it is same person! Is it likely that those changes to core would necessitate significant re-work for plugins like this? I wonder why multiselect is not already part of core functionality?

It is. What has changed is the way the control is configured and used.

Thanks Robert. Very fortunately @j.jaffeux has just indicated he would be willing to fix the plugin - what an amazing community this is!

That’s great. It was his upgrade so he should be well placed!

This should fix it: FIX: ensures multi-select dropdown is correctly working master ← jjaffeux:master merged 07:59AM - 11 Mar 20 UTC (UTC) [image] …

@j.jaffeux thank you for the fix. I merged it :slight_smile:

Hi thank you both for an amazing response! I have updated both the plugin and Discourse to include latest changes, but issue with user profile page omitting drop down field remains for me. A possibly related issue is that in all cases, I have to click twice on the User Profile link on left hand si…

Sure In the video, I highlight the multi-select field as it displays in user preferences page, but as you can see, despite clicking twice on ‘Profile’, that field does not appear, so is still not editable. A secondary issue you may notice, on the User Preferences page, is that there is no…

Please show me the error in your browser console, when fields are not showing. Concerning commas that’s not a Discourse regression.

Multiselect user field plugin broken?

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Paul_King (Paul King) March 11, 2020, 11:47am 15

Many thanks!! Really appreciate your help

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