[#45874] - Missing group list user field in site frontend editing – ok?
- Closed
- 10 Aug 2025
- Medium
- Build: 5.3-dev
- # 45874
Steps to reproduce the issue
All with the admin superuser:
- Create field group 'fieldGroup'
- Create fields 'user', 'usergrouplist' and 'url' with respective types, assign to 'fieldGroup'
- Create featured article
Expected result
- All three fields are shown and editable for an article in administrator backend and site frontend view
Actual result
- Administrator backend edit view is working
- Site frontend edit view is not showing the user field
System information (as much as possible)
- Tested with 5.4-dev
- User field content is shown for the article, but in editing the article the field is not existing in the field group
Additional comments
- Found in testing #45695 and it is unclear it should be like this?
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Cannot replicate this. Tested with the sample data and I can edit the author custom field in the front end
Could it be caused by different permissions for different user groups for the 2 fields?
No, all permissions are inherited, as with the other fields.
Cannot replicate this. Tested with the sample data and I can edit the author custom field in the front end
The field 'About the Author' from 'Blog Sample Data' is of type textarea. The problem in this issue is with the user type field.
Sorry I misread your original post
I would assume its a security issue as you wouldnt want someone with permissions as low as an author to be able to enumerate all the users on a site
I would assume its a security issue as you wouldnt want someone with permissions as low as an author to be able to enumerate all the users on a site
All steps are with the initial admin superuser. I extended the description.
From the code comment we can only assume it is the intended behaviour
| Status | New | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2025-08-10 11:21:31 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | muhme |
Thank you @brianteeman, something like this I was expecting.
-> Custom user field is only shown and not editable on frontend site.
Could it be caused by different permissions for different user groups for the 2 fields?