Question

I’ve come across an annoying problem with the custom properties added to Sitecore User Profile.

I’ve added a password field to the custom user profile, but this field will not prepopulate the value on load, so if I make changes to other fields and save, it will overwrite the existing password with a blank, unless I type in the password again on every edit.

For example,

Custom User Profile original saved data:
1. phone number = 123.456.7890
2. password = 1234

Edit phone number only and save:
1. phone number = 123.123.1234
2. password = [blank]

The problem is because the password field always display as blank on loading, is there a way to make this field fetch the data and mask it? Or do we have to overwrite the existing Sitecore field resolver class to ignore blank space?

Thank you.

Answer 1

After checking with Sitecore documents…

There is no way to handle this without rewriting the Security API. As the user profile template only handles basic text field type.