Can Admin change the user name settings to allow simple user names?

researchcooperative
@researchcooperative
4 years ago
694 posts
The "user name" sign up help message says this:

QUOTE: Your primary 'user account' name. This will be displayed on your public profile page.

This does not explain what kind of user name a new user can enter.

One of my new members received this automatic message:

QUOTE: You have entered an invalid value for "username" - value must be numbers, letters, spaces or punctuation and contain no HTML and at least 1 character(s) long.

His attempted user name was a simple string of connected lower case letters.

Can Admin change the user name settings to allow simple user names? How? Where?

What is the default?




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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
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updated by @researchcooperative: 09/27/20 05:44:08AM
michael
@michael
4 years ago
7,714 posts
What was the combination of letters that made up the simple string of connected lower case letters?

That warning message should only fire if there are characters that are not fit for a url.

* brian
* michael
* jim
should all be ok, but
* bri@n
* mi"ch;ael
would trigger that error.

The profile name is derived from the user name so it needs to be a valid url structure
yoursite.com/michael
yoursite.com/brian

It can not be changed. but if there is a valid error we'll try to fix that.
researchcooperative
@researchcooperative
4 years ago
694 posts
htwong


Thanks :-)


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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
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michael
@michael
4 years ago
7,714 posts
I had no issue creating an account with that user name. There must be something else at play.

Possible to do a screen recording of it failing?
researchcooperative
@researchcooperative
4 years ago
694 posts
Thanks... I will investigate further.


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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
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paul
@paul
4 years ago
4,326 posts
Be sure you are running the latest modules. The way user names were validated was updated not so long back.


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist
researchcooperative
@researchcooperative
4 years ago
694 posts
Thanks, I discovered a large set of April updates that I missed (peak Covid19 panic in Japan). This might do the trick! (Now we have an effective routine of mask wearing in crowded places and avoiding crowds, so the panic is over, though not yet the pandemic)


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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
Migrated from Ning 2.0. Now at Jamroom 6 beta and using Jamroom Hosting for The Research Cooperative (researchcooperative.org)