Search for showuseridentity in the admin and enable all fields Create a student (in the script it's id = 3, you need to change for the correct id) - fill up all the showuseridentity fields. Create a manager Connect as manager Script to run: 1 <?php 2 require_once("./config.php"); 3 require_once("./user/lib.php"); 4 $user = $DB->get_record('user', array('id' => 3)); 5 $userdetails = user_get_user_details($user); 7 print_r($userdetails); Run this script without the patch, you should not see idnumber, institution, department. Run the script with the patch, you should see them. Check that showuseridentityfields configuration is respected (following if you disable or enable some of them).