# User custom fields are no longer editable
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-custom-fields-are-no-longer-editable/143859
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** user-custom-fields
**Created:** [March 11, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-custom-fields-are-no-longer-editable/143859 "2020-03-11T00:57:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Paul\_King](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paul_King)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-custom-fields-are-no-longer-editable/143859/1 "2020-03-11T00:57:15Z")
Hi, possibly caused by a recent update in Discourse version (now on 2.5.0 beta2), I can no longer edit user custom fields for users (even though all are still marked as ‘editable after signup’ in the customize menu) - and I cannot even edit my own custom fields as administrator.
The existing contents of the fields still display, but without the pencil/edit icon.
I see I also can’t edit anyone’s email address (including my own), which will be problematic for people who change email providers then forget their login password
Am I missing something or is this a bug?
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-custom-fields-are-no-longer-editable/143859/2 "2020-03-11T01:54:34Z")
I don’t it was ever editable from this screen.
However you can edit it from:
- `/u/USERNAME/preferences/profile` (for custom fields)
- `/u/USERNAME/preferences/account` (for email)
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### Author:  [@Paul\_King](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paul_King)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-custom-fields-are-no-longer-editable/143859/3 "2020-03-11T04:52:36Z")
Thanks Joffrey
Weirdly, while I can find and edit the email address by clicking on ‘account’, custom fields for me don’t show up when I click ‘profile’. Only the default fields are displayed.
If I then click the ‘Normal’ menu (without selecting any of the drop down options) , some but not all custom user fields _sometimes_ appear (but often don’t).
If the custom fields are showing and I refresh my browser, they disappear, until I click on the ‘Normal’ menu button again.
In particular a field that uses the [discourse-multiselect-user-field](https://github.com/procourse/discourse-multiselect-user-field) plugin does not ever appear.
If editing my own user account as administrator, there is no ‘Normal’ menu to click on, but I get a similar temporary effect by clicking on the ‘Expand’ (or ‘Collapse’) button.
I don’t imagine this behavior is deliberate?
A second issue/request is that I think that all these fields should be editable directly from wherever they are displayed to the user or admin - seems unnecessarily labyrinthine and not especially intuitive to disallow this, especially if there are a lot of accounts to manually update, or if user is not very familiar with where settings are buried within the interface.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 6:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-custom-fields-are-no-longer-editable/143859/4 "2020-03-11T06:10:28Z")
I will fix that plugin.
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### Author:  [@Paul\_King](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paul_King)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 6:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-custom-fields-are-no-longer-editable/143859/5 "2020-03-11T06:13:49Z")
Fantastic!! That would be much appreciated. Happy to test anything it that helps.
\*\*Edit - if this is not too cheeky a question, do you have a rough sense of how long it might take? I have naively been telling my existing MyBB users that their new Discourse based forum will go live on 15 March (before I discovered this issue)
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-custom-fields-are-no-longer-editable/143859/6 "2024-02-29T12:24:10Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2024, 1:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-custom-fields-are-no-longer-editable/143859/7 "2024-04-16T13:11:49Z")