creating/adding a new field of info for a user.

Question

is it possible to create a new seperate field in user info?
I want to create separate fields for department classification (in my customer's case there are departments, junior colleges, first term, and second term) and department names (addition of input items other than the existing items).

Then, those fields can be viewed in the Account settings or in the Admin page in 'people'.

Chris · Accepted Answer

Hi @MoatazKhan12,

To expand on what @mzimmerman said, there is no way to do what you're asking in the Canvas UI.  There is a custom user data API available, but you'd need to use that API to set the data and also use the API to pull data back out.  If you have a developer at your school, you might be able to have then create some custom javascript to display the data on the profile page, and maybe even find a easy(ish) way to enter the data somewhere too, but it's not trivial work so just know that going into such a project.

-Chris