[Yanel-dev] Registering user information

[Michael Wechner]

Bruno von Rotz wrote:
> Well, honestly, the email id is what is most interesting to the people 
> issuing the form, so it should be mandatory.

agreed and I also think it's good for verification purposes if the 
person actually exists, but still
not everyone wants to give away his/her email address because of privacy 
policies/concerns.

Cheers

Michi
> 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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