[Yanel-dev] Registering user information

[Michael Wechner]

Bruno von Rotz wrote:
> In most cases the user-id is the email-id for such forms, could this 
> be an approach?

email address is fine as user-ID. But what if email address is optional?

Generally speaking we need something unique within such a form which is 
mandatory and hence a user-ID can be generated.

Cheers

Michi
> Bruno
> Michael Wechner schrieb:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have form which people need to submit their name, address, etc. in 
>> order to be able to download a white-paper.
>>
>> I would like to register these people as users within Yanel, because 
>> at some later stage they might be using more services
>> and hence need a password, etc.
>>
>> Here my questions/concerns
>>
>> - Does it make sense to register such users as regular  Yanel users 
>> (via the IdentityManager)  without password?
>> - What about user-id? (because it doesn't make sense to ask for a 
>> user-id in the first stage)
>> - What about the scalability of the Yanel user management interface?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Michael
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