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Cameron edited this page Jan 28, 2017 · 1 revision

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Note: This is a work in progress, and is subject to change until 2.0 is released. Please do not rely on this information!

Login Name

Every user has a 'login name' which they enter, together with their password, to access the site. Usually they choose their own login name.

In 2.0 there are two new options:

  • If enabled in prefs, the user may also log in using their email address (by which we mean whatever is entered in the 'email address' user information). So the login name may still be used as well.
  • When a user signs up, or is created by an admin, E107 can be set to create a random login name according to a pattern.

You specify the pattern in prefs, where special characters indicate the position of the random information, and other alphanumeric characters are entered 'as is':

    • an alpha character

. - a numeric character

    • an alphanumeric character

Make sure you allow more than enough randomly generated characters to accommodate your potential users.

This allows, for example, a school to generate login names reflecting the current school year; for example the pattern could be generated using:

Y2009#..**

This will generate a login name, exactly 10 characters long, where the first five characters are always 'Y2009'.

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