[Yanel-dev] Registering user information

[Bruno von Rotz]

Well, honestly, the email id is what is most interesting to the people 
issuing the form, so it should be mandatory.
Bruno
Michael Wechner schrieb:
> 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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