Changing profile fields with users in place

Hi,

We redesigned the profile fields to suit a particular community we're supporting, but unfortunately that was after one of our admins had already filled in several of the 'default' profile fields. Although they are now not accessible or visible when viewing her profile, they are still shown in italics on the members list page.

Is there any way to get those particular fields back? I didn't want to click the 'Reset default profile' button in case that means we loose all our custom fields, which we still want. What's the best way to resolve this - other than the obvious 'set up the fields before filling anything in'?

Thanks,

David.

  • After much googling and reading around, I eventually found this which solved my problem. Just one note of caution - renaming custom fields will cause loss of data, but other than that, it was easy to import the missing fields and rearrange things.

     

     

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