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

[Thomas Berezansky]

The "allow changing away from barcode but not anything else" mode of  
username changing defaults to "starts with a digit".....but the actual  
login code doesn't.

I would call that a bug. I will throw a branch out in a few minutes.

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Ben Shum <bshum at biblio.org>:

> 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?
>>>
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>>
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