Question Kunena - Saving profile clears all Joomla user custom fields

Another idea:
If someone could show me a proper documentation or example on how to use setField Value on user custom fields, that would solve all my problems. I already have a form displaying and editing those custom fields (checkboxes and radio buttons). But I do not find a proper way to set them in Joomla. In that case I owuld not mind this bug. I would anyhow set custom fields after user->save in user.php .

I desperately try since 2 weeks to come up and show a custom value (a car model) underneath the avatar in forum. Everything works, but I cannot save the form to the custom fields.

Sorry for double post, I cannot delete the earlier one.

Hi ruud,

I installed patch tester and downloaded patch list form Github. But it does not show 19884 or 19735 PID.

Goldie wrote: Hi ruud,

I installed patch tester and downloaded patch list form Github. But it does not show 19884 or 19735 PID.

Hi, sorry, my bad. Because this patch is already tested and approved for 3.8.7, they do not show up in the patch tester.
What you should do is do the file changes yourself on your test server. There are only 4 files changed: github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/19884/files

com_fields is not a regular component, but rather a component that integrates into other components. The saving of the fields is done via a system plugin that triggers on the onContentAfterSave event. What would be ideal is if Kunena integrates com_fields. That way the Kunena profile can be extended in a very flexible way.

Hi ruud,
I will check.
I do agree that com_fields shoulb be integrated into Kunena. I have now tried for 2 weeks to find a solution how to write set such a field. But I did not find any way.

Hi ruud,

patch is applied and works. no more overwrite of custom fields. Thank you for your support.

However stilll no way found to set a user custom field from PHP (Kunena) . Any help on that would be highly appreciated.

Hi, in the Kunena user edit form an event is triggered: onKunenaTabsEdit
so the best way to achieve the Custom User fields on the Kunena User edit page is via a (self created) Kunena plugin that catches the onKunenaTabsEdit event and returns the custom fields to display on the edit form.
Doing it this way you are also sure that it will also survive a Kunena upgrade