2020-05-20 User Management Meeting Notes

Meeting URL

https://zoom.us/j/488543197

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Notetaker
  • Catherine volunteered as tribute as the alphabetical note-taker.

Preferred name on user record (UIU-1649)Group
  •  Patty has created a story for this feature
  • How will preferred names be entered into FOLIO? Under what circumstances would a preferred name be used?
  • Would the group prefer first name only? Something that can be manually typed in? Is a token needed (conditional if present)?
  • Requirement: if a preferred name is present, use as the "First Name" token.
  • Demonstration of token use in notice templates
  • Honorifics, name suffixes also need tokens
  • Would this field be protected from being overwritten by a feed from an identity provider?
  • This would be a poor use of a custom field
    • Can custom fields be tokenized? (There is a ticket for this feature)
  • Tie in to patron empowerment?
  • There may be a need to store both a legal name and a preferred first name
  • Display name string versus first name/last name/preferred name data elements?
    • Useful for international names
    • Preferred first name + last name combination for display name
  • Example needed of this kind of field in a different system
  • UICIRC-162 Add the preferred name token to the list of patron notice tokens
  • Logic (if...else) statements needed in notice templates in order to select appropriate name token (preferred name vs. first name); ability to use a conditional block (basic "looping" functionality already supported)
  • Alternative: construct "display name" in patron record based on preferred first name/first name presence and last name; protected field; create "display name" token for notice templates
    • Need preferred first name element from data load before "display name" calculation (possibly including honorifics)
    • Different libraries might want to construct these display names differently ("Preferred first name + last name" or "Honorific + Preferred first name + Middle initial + Last name + Suffixes")
    • Construction of a display name might need to be different based on the use case (different types of display names)
  • Should preferred names be searchable?
  • Use of non-standard characters (varchar? strings, non-ASCII, spaces, etc)
  • Patty will make necessary edits to UIU-1649 for review

List of fields review
  • Sent to RA SIG
    • Want a separate permission for viewing addresses (UIU-1329 Permissions - Users: Basic record view) in user records
  • Permissions for certain patron data from Checkout view; permission needed to disable "Patron look-up" button in Checkout app
  • Patty will create new UXPROD to create additional permissions for user data
  • Need to continue this discussion next week!
  • Possibility of a joint meeting for UM/RA to discuss this list