Skip adding 'Name' for user template when it is using a different parent to default

[postscript-chris]

I followed the steps here to create users in a different parent to the default:

https://processwire.com/blog/posts/processwire-core-updates-2.5.14/#multiple-templates-or-parents-for-users

This is awesome, so glad I found it and it is working as expected. However if I populate 'Name format for children' in the parent template, nothing works. When I go to add a new user underneath the new parent this takes me to:

'access/users/edit/bookmarks/bookmarks/bookmarks/bookmarks/'

'Name' is completely irrelevant to the system I am building and it will just require an email so I was going to auto populate it with an ID or something like member-NUM.

ProcessWire 3.0.124

[ryancramerdesign]

I'm not sure you'll be able to utilize the name format for children on users because the primary identifier for users is name, and they still have to be unique regardless of parent. So the equation is different than for regular pages. Though I'm not sure why it's redirecting you to a bookmarks page, it should definitely degrade more gracefully than that, so I'l need to get a closer look. What is the name format you are trying to use? Btw, It should be fine if you want to use email for login, so long as they are unique.

[postscript-chris]

Hi Ryan, cheers for getting back to me on this.

You can set the title as anything and it will still go to the bookmarks URL.

I am using email address for people to login, that's working fine, I just want to skip setting the name as it is an unnecessary step for an admin and they may become confused. I achieved this with a hook in the end, and this also adds the correct role. I then set the name on saveReady to something we could possibly use in the future distributor-0001 as an example. However even if you set a name format this would still be unique and handled by ProcessWire wouldn't it?

Side note, normal users who are editors in ProcessWire are added in the normal way in my system so name is the primary identifier and unique, so it would be great if this is easy to change. I think it is a pretty advanced feature so people will understand the do's and don't. Although if it cant be changed my hooks are working ok.

[netcarver]

@ryancramerdesign Is this a not-a-bug situation?

[ryancramerdesign]

@netcarver since PW requires name for user (and roles and permissions), it's not designed to be skipped over (page name format) at the admin level. But what sounds like a potential bug here is the bookmarks thing, which I'm not sure I understand yet. Though if it only appears as a result of using the page name format on a system template, then I don't think we need to do anything other than maybe move to requests repo as feature to support skipping name for users. @postscript-chris I'm curious what name format are you using? I might be feasible to support the "email" field here, since it is required on templates representing users.

[postscript-chris]

I will check again and report back next week when I am working on this particular site.

[postscript-chris]

@ryancramerdesign so I tried:

title
email (I knew this wouldn't work)
Y/m/d H:i:s

I suppose what I am struggling with here is you are saying they need a name, but they will have a name even using 'title', or 'Y/m/d H:i:s', ProcessWire would make sure they had a unique name.

[reminders]

👋 @netcarver, review this issue

[ryancramerdesign]

@postscript-chris I think I've resolved the bookmarks redirect issue, and looks like it also enables you to use the pageNameFormat for users now as well. Please try it out and let me know how it works for you. Btw, using "email" for the child page name format should be fine, as it can be any field name present on the template.

[netcarver]

@postscript-chris Could you review the fix and close the issue, if appropriate. Thank you!

[netcarver]

@postscript-chris Closing this now. Please post more if needed.