generate default display name for a person when none given and validation

[Claudia Jürgen]

Hi all,

I noted that if no display_name is defined for an eperson, none is
displayed at e.g. the /people index. While testing I created persons
with no extra display name. My misconception was that if none was given
a default will be generated from name information of the person.

The only mandatory field is the University-ID. As not all instances
might be able to connect to an institution's identity management, maybe
some more information should be obligatory like name, email ...

Claudia

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Claudia Juergen
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https://eldorado.tu-dortmund.de/

[Howard Ding]

On 10/21/2011 6:45 AM, Claudia J�rgen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I noted that if no display_name is defined for an eperson, none is
> displayed at e.g. the /people index. While testing I created persons
> with no extra display name. My misconception was that if none was
> given a default will be generated from name information of the person.
>
> The only mandatory field is the University-ID. As not all instances
> might be able to connect to an institution's identity management,
> maybe some more information should be obligatory like name, email ...
>

You might want to bring this up on the main list, as it's more of a
policy question. On creation I can easily enough generate a display name
of some sort if some of the other names are supplied, but I don't know
if there is any reason why we currently don't. Likewise, I don't know
what went into the original decision to make only the UID mandatory, but
if there is any consensus that more should be then I'd be happy to
implement that. It would seem reasonable to me to require at least a
Last Name (perhaps itself an unfortunate choice - Surname or Family Name
might be better, but I digress).

Anyway, if you wouldn't mind do bring this up on the main Bibapp list
and see if anyone else has anything to say about it. If so and if we can
come to a consensus I'll implement that; if no one cares then I'll
probably be happy enough to implement what you want.

Howard