ANUSF/ADA-CMS — Issue #1: Legacy user accounts are rejected by user management application
Author: odf
Created: 2011-11-23 06:56:00+00:00
State: open

Older accounts can miss now mandatory fields like first or last name, leading to a variety of errors.

A clean solution would be to disable these accounts, and instead produce a message when these users try to login advising them to contact ADA staff with their missing details. We'd also have to verify that admins can then add the missing details back in via the "manage users" form.

A quicker solution would be to run a script on the database and fill in place-holders, e.g. "PLEASE PROVIDE REQUIRED INFORMATION", wherever a mandatory value is missing. This would send a clear message to the user, be obvious enough to staff when processing access requests, and not block any functionality.