Magento 2 Adding field to Account information tab at admin panel

Question

I have added new customer attribute 'Company' (not to customer_address) and I need to render this in customer_form ui-component at the "Account information" tab.

It's already in customer collection when I check this in magento_root/vendor/magento/module-customer/Model/Customer/DataProvider.php

For implementing I have added to magento_root/vendor/magento/module-customer/view/base/ui_component/customer_form.xml following:

    <field name="company" formElement="input">
        <argument name="data" xsi:type="array">
            <item name="config" xsi:type="array">
                <item name="source" xsi:type="string">customer</item>
            </item>
        </argument>
        <settings>
            <dataType>text</dataType>
        </settings>
    </field>

I also tried:

        <field name="company">
        <argument name="data" xsi:type="array">
            <item name="config" xsi:type="array">
                <item name="sortOrder" xsi:type="number">50</item>
                <item name="dataType" xsi:type="string">varchar</item>
                <item name="formElement" xsi:type="string">input</item>
                <item name="label" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Company</item>
                <item name="default" xsi:type="number">0</item>
                <item name="source" xsi:type="string">customer</item>
            </item>
        </argument>
    </field>

But this field doesn't appear at the account information tab! What am I missing?

Answer 1

May be you doing wrong when you created customer attribute. No need to additional xml for that. Try following code which create mobile attribute and added account information tab automatically.

namespace Vendor\ModuleName\Setup;

use Magento\Customer\Model\Customer;
use Magento\Customer\Setup\CustomerSetup;
use \Magento\Framework\Setup\UpgradeDataInterface;
use \Magento\Framework\Setup\ModuleContextInterface;
use \Magento\Framework\Setup\ModuleDataSetupInterface;

class UpgradeData implements UpgradeDataInterface
{
    /**
     * Customer setup factory
     *
     * @var \Magento\Customer\Setup\CustomerSetupFactory
     */
    private $customerSetupFactory;

    /**
     * Init
     *
     * @param \Magento\Customer\Setup\CustomerSetupFactory $customerSetupFactory
     */
    public function __construct(\Magento\Customer\Setup\CustomerSetupFactory $customerSetupFactory)
    {
        $this->customerSetupFactory = $customerSetupFactory;
    }

    /**
     * Upgrade data for a module
     *
     * @param ModuleDataSetupInterface $setup
     * @param ModuleContextInterface $context
     * @return void
     */
    public function upgrade(ModuleDataSetupInterface $setup, ModuleContextInterface $context)
    {
        if (version_compare($context->getVersion(), '2.0.1', '<')) {
            $this->createMobileAttribute($setup);
        }
    }

    public function createMobileAttribute($setup)
    {
        /** @var CustomerSetup $customerSetup */
        $customerSetup = $this->customerSetupFactory->create(['setup' => $setup]);

        // Add new customer attribute
        $customerSetup->addAttribute(
            Customer::ENTITY,
            'mobile',
            [

                'label'                 => 'Mobile',
                'input'                 => 'text',
                'required'              => false,
                'sort_order'            => 1000,
                'position'              => 1000,
                'visible'               => true,
                'system'                => false,
                'is_used_in_grid'       => true,
                'is_visible_in_grid'    => false,
                'is_filterable_in_grid' => false,
                'is_searchable_in_grid' => false,
                'default'               => '0'
            ]
        );

        // add attribute to form
        /** @var  $attribute */
        $attribute = $customerSetup->getEavConfig()->getAttribute(Customer::ENTITY, 'mobile');
        $attribute->setData('used_in_forms', ['adminhtml_customer', 'customer_account_create', 'customer_account_edit']);
        $attribute->save();

        $setup->endSetup();
    }
}