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jjnxpct
16 Apr 2025

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

On a new website I'm building, we have two frontend user groups. Each group requires its own set of custom user fields.

For articles, it's possible to assign custom fields to specific categories—those fields only appear when editing an article in that category. I was hoping for similar functionality with user groups, but discovered this is currently not supported.

While we can use access rights to control the visibility of user custom fields on the frontend, there is no such control in the backend.

As a result, when editing or creating a user in the backend, all custom fields (or their field group tabs) for all user groups are shown. This creates confusion when managing users from different groups, especially when each group should only see its own relevant fields.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like the ability to assign custom user fields (or field groups) to specific user groups.

In the backend user manager:

  • Only the fields assigned to the user's group(s) should be shown.
  • This should work similarly to how custom fields behave with article categories.

This would make backend user management much clearer and more context-aware.

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ssnobben - comment - 19 Apr 2025

Agree about your analysis..but seems long time to fix if things work the Joomla way. Always said Joomlers devs not focus/understand much on the importance of real world more complex user basic management perspective. But thats things we have to live with as these Open Source project are driven by developers and what they priotise and want to focus on.


This comment was created with the J!Tracker Application at issues.joomla.org/tracker/joomla-cms/45333.

avatar chmst
chmst - comment - 19 Apr 2025

Open Source project are driven by developers and what they priotise and want to focus on.

Open Source Projects are driven by the community. You can develop whatever you think is useful.

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