[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] ***SPAM*** Re: Setting to allow patrons to change username

[Ben Shum]

Hi Tim,

Another library setting that may cause havoc for you down the road is 
the option for patron barcode format.  You should set a regex there to 
identify patron barcode type so that things don't break for patrons if 
they try to use their barcode vs. their username.  For some reason in 
Tpac, if that setting isn't set, when a patron's username has become 
something other than their barcode, it will no longer recognize / use 
their barcode as a login option but only use the username.  (actually 
behind the scenes, I think it's only using the username field, which is 
usually always starts as the barcode)

Not sure if that's a Tpac bug exactly, or if maybe Evergreen should ship 
out of the box with a default sample regex so that this doesn't happen.  
Either way I should probably open a Launchpad bug ticket on the subject.

I can look up what regex we ended up with when I get to the office later 
this morning.

-- Ben

On 5/9/2012 8:23 AM, Tim Spindler wrote:
> Thanks, Sally, that worked.
>
> Tim
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Sally Fortin <sfortin at esilibrary.com 
> <mailto:sfortin at esilibrary.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Tim,
>
>     If you set the library setting, "Allow multiple username changes"
>     to TRUE and the "lock username" setting to FALSE, does that work? 
>     When I created a new patron record, the barcode was identical to
>     the username.  With these settings, I was able to login to the
>     patron's account and change the barcode username to other
>     usernames multiple times.
>
>     Sally
>
>
>     On 5/9/2012 8:08 AM, Tim Spindler wrote:
>>     I set the library setting "LOCK USERNAME" to false to allow users
>>     to change their username in the PAC.  It doesn't seem to have
>>     done anything.  Is this correct or is there another setting aI
>>     should be looking at?
>>
>>     This is version 2.2.
>>
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