I recently added a custom field to existing users. I noticed that I when I retrieved this new field using the API it came back null. I had to resave the user profile before it worked correctly.

Bill,

If you are referring to Custom Attribute, in Liferay 5.2.3, then I believe this is a normal behavior.

You can take a look at the "expandovalue" table and see how many users have values for the Custom Attribute (map classPK with userId).

It would have been great to assign default value to exiting users once a Custom Attribute is created. You probably have to write your own process to do that.

Ali

Hi Bill,

It would be better for you to use Liferay 6.

As mentioned by @Ali, you would get many new features in Liferay 6.

Thanks

Jonas Yuan

I'm using 6.05.

Hi Bill,

Thanks. Could you be able to paste your custom code here?

Thus it may be easy to narrow down the issue you had.

Jonas Yuan
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Even with Liferay6.0.5, that is the expected behavior. You have to check for this in your program.