User Field Prompt

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The User Field Prompt is an official Discourse theme component that allows administrators to embed forms for custom user fields directly into posts, enabling users to update their profiles without navigating to settings. Discourse provides installation instructions and usage syntax, such as [wrap=user-field names="age,best fruits"][/wrap].

Following the release, patrickemin reported that the component failed to work, displaying blank fields and errors. david initially suggested a fix, but patrickemin confirmed the issue persisted. Upon further investigation, david identified that the root cause was the site running a legacy post-stream, which was incompatible with recent updates to the component. Specifically, conflicts arose with the discourse-nationalflags plugin, which had not yet been updated for the new post-stream architecture. patrickemin later confirmed that updating the nationalflags plugin resolved the issue.

In terms of UI feedback, Moin suggested updating the documentation screenshot to reflect current behavior, noting that the field layout now differs from the standard preferences view. nathank agreed that consistency would be desirable. j.jaffeux announced that a superior native solution is planned for the near future, meaning no further development will be done on this theme component. However, NateDhaliwal and satonotdead questioned if this native feature is still in development, as no announcements have been made since the comment.

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:discourse2: Summary User Field Prompt allows you to show a user field form in any Discourse post.
:eyeglasses: Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator
:hammer_and_wrench: Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-user-field-prompt
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Features

User Field Prompt allows you to show a user field form in any Discourse post. Changes made in the form will be saved in the current user profile. It’s useful to ask users to make changes to a user field without having to force them to search the field in their profile.

Usage for a user field named age and another one named best fruits:

[wrap=user-field names="age,best fruits"][/wrap]

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Last edited by @Moin 2026-04-22T17:18:25Z

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Hi, does not work for me, it displays a blank field and an error when saving the post.

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Hi, has anyone successfully used this ?

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hi @patrickemin
I can confirm this is currently not working. I’ve tagged in the relevant people, so hopefully there will be a fix soon.

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Thanks for the report. This should be fixed now: FIX: Rendering strategy (#34) · discourse/discourse-user-field-prompt@c468800 · GitHub

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Hi, I tested again and it’s still not working: no error displayed but the post is blank.

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Any chance you can share a link to an example broken post on your forum? (in PM is fine if you prefer not to share here)

The preview of the theme on theme-creator is working for me (as long as you’re logged in)

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Yes here you are: https://dessein-tech.com/t/user-field-prompt-test/8404

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Are you sure the user-field-prompt theme component is installed and enabled? I don’t see its code in the dev tools :thinking:

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My bad the TC was deactivated, it’s now active, I created a new topic: https://dessein-tech.com/t/user-field-prompt-test-2/8406 the frame around the field appears but is not editable. On top of that, the delete button and edit button for that topic do not work (there a delay of 30 seconds before the topic is actually deleted or can be edited). The wrench icon does not react too. This happens in Preview mode too.

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I think the problem is that your site is running a legacy version of the post-stream, because discourse-nationalflags has not yet been updated for the new post stream. As an admin, you should be seeing a red banner about that issue.

The recent fixes for user-field-prompt were built only with the new post-stream in mind, so that’s why it’s causing errors on your site.

So if you need this user-field feature right now, I’d recommend disabling the nationalflags plugin. Otherwise, you’ll need to wait for the developer of that plugin to make the necessary updates.

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Thank you for your analysis :slightly_smiling_face: . I’ll wait for the nationalflags update.

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Hi, the national flags plugin has been updated and the TC User Field now works !

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Maybe the screenshot in the first post could be updated so it’s less unexpected that the title and description are shown below the field.

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It no longer looks like it does in the preferences.

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Would be nice to have them consistent, and this is a minor change.

How tricky is a modification to bring them into alignment?

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We are going to have a better solution than this theme component in the coming weeks, so Im not going to spend time on this sorry.

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Is this something like user fields in TCs :eyes: ?

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I wonder if it is still on the plans :slight_smile:

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Thanks for bringing this up! Seems like nothing new since then. I know there has been talk about wanting to have custom user fields in TCs before, but nothing yet unfortunately.

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