Fields populated for shadow user creation
| Field name | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| id | Represens the shadow user id, the same as real user id | 89e6d798-012f-4005-87da-95a64e8a61f3 |
| username | Created using the following pattern: 'shadow_{{origninalUsername}}_{{random5charactersString}}' | shadow_mobius_admin_rrjwt |
| type | Populated with constant value 'shadow' | shadow |
| active | Populated true value | true |
| metadata | Common metadata object |
Example of shadow user record in DB
Storing originalTenantId field
Currently we are not storing any personal data, a patron group of shadow users, and also filtering out shadow users from search results, but we need to keep linking between shadow and real user.
In order to achieve this we need to store the field originalTenantId in shadow user in some place.
This field can be necessary if we need to get any user's data from a real user if we add some view for displaying shadow users in future on need to use some user's data in reports.
Option to add a new field in the root schema of the user entity can be considered not as the best solution, because this field is needed only for consortia installations.
folio-custom-fields module can be leveraged for this, it has a POST endpoint to populate a custom field type that will be stored in the user entity in DB.