# Saving edits on user preferences page with required custom fields is unclear

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**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [10월 4, 2016, 8:15오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-edits-on-user-preferences-page-with-required-custom-fields-is-unclear/51090 "2016-10-04T20:15:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![shadowbrush](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/shadowbrush/32/121502_2.png) [@shadowbrush](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shadowbrush)\
**Post date:** [10월 4, 2016, 10:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-edits-on-user-preferences-page-with-required-custom-fields-is-unclear/51090/5 "2016-10-04T22:12:29Z")

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Thank you, Jeff! Ideally, there’s some better way to ask for a registration reason, but if the error message clearly points to the field in the profile that is empty, I think that would do it. I will probably give all existing members a value, so that they don’t have to fill one in.

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