On our DIscourse-hosted site we have a custom user data field for a user’s member ID in our organization. What’s the easiest way to populate it for around 2000 users brought over from our old phpbb3 system? (I can generate a list of what username is what member ID.) And is there any way to ensure…

Hi Mike :slight_smile: If I understand well, you created a custom user field that is currently empty and wants to fill it in for each existing user based on data you have somewhere. I’ll do that with a rail script, and I’ll check the content is unique inside the script. Since it was migrated from…

I’m not the project leader on this (officially, I retired in 2016, I’m just helping with the discussion forums migration because of my long experience with it), I’ll ask him if we can have that done as part of the data migration. Otherwise, I could probably do it via the API. A one-to-one relation…

Populating a custom user data field

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MikeNolan (Mike Nolan) May 22, 2023, 4:48pm 4

I’ve passed this task along to the primary contact for our Discourse group, as he’s been handling the data migration.

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Populating a custom user data field

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