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Investigate validations for username strings #12647

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marcellamaki opened this issue Sep 9, 2024 · 1 comment
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Investigate validations for username strings #12647

marcellamaki opened this issue Sep 9, 2024 · 1 comment
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P1 - important Priority: High impact on UX TODO: needs decisions Design or specifications are necessary

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Observed behavior

Reported from Lewa in Clearinghouse: some users have names that have apostrophes. Kolibri doesn't allow such characters in the username part.

Expected behavior

Apostrophes should be a permitted character within names unless there

User-facing consequences

Usernames do not align to users' actual names.

Steps to reproduce

Create a user name that contains an ' in Kolibri

@marcellamaki marcellamaki added P1 - important Priority: High impact on UX TODO: needs decisions Design or specifications are necessary labels Sep 9, 2024
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jredrejo commented Sep 9, 2024

I've never seen usernames like that. For the full name it makes sense, but for the username... I am not sure if that's a good idea. I can imagine also problems in our api with json objects containing the usename

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