Custom field in Core Doctype

Frappe Framework Customization
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Can we add custom field in core doctypes like Users using customize form?

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AFAIK, we couldn’t add more fields, even directly thourgh Custom Field doctype. The most we can do is to set some property using Property Setter doctype.

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Hi @Rehan_Ansari:

Is not allowed with form customization. You can achieve this creating a custom field via fixtures, or with some “witchery” (changing on your develop system wich doctypes allows custom fields)

Check this.

Hope this helps.

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@avc

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Hey @Rehan_Ansari
Try @avc approach
Comment out User doctype from the core_doctypes_list, add the field in User doctype, and export it via fixtures or a customized form. Then, uncomment the User doctype from the core_doctypes_list. Hope this helps!

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@ejaaz So by doing this on the development setup it will not affect the production site after deploying this custom code via custom app?

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I have done this in my local setup, exported the custom field in my custom app, and deployed it to the server; it worked properly in my case. You can verify by testing on one more local site.

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@Rehan_Ansari
There is one more approach: if you want, you can use it to add fields in the after_install hook.

Reference

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Simply run this code in System Console, after changing the label and fieldname and other properties as you want.

custom_field = frappe.new_doc(“Custom Field”)
custom_field.dt = “User”
custom_field.label = your_field_lable
custom_field.fieldname = fieldname
custom_field.fieldtype = fieldtype
custom_field.read_only = 1
custom_field.insert_after = “”
custom_field.save(ignore_permission=1)

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