08-21-2018, 08:57 PM
Hi (for the second time in two days!),
I'm a complete noob to User Spice but it is presenting some exciting possibilities.
The site I am designing is for orthopaedic surgeons. They are a bit straight laced for usernames (and I doubt they'd remember them anyway).
I was wondering if anyone could recommend the best way of autogenerating a membership number that would consist of, say, the year, month and date of joining, as well as a short unique number in case a few join on the same day (highly likely as we intend to relaunch the site soon). I had something like '20180820-001' in mind and would envisage displaying it in the account page and perhaps the topbar along with their first and last names.
Username looks pretty key to the whole construct - is it easy to switch that reliance to a membership number?
I'd like to leave the US code as intact as possible for headache-free upgrades so I am unsure if it is a good idea to tinker with either the id or username fields in the database.
Much obliged.
M
I'm a complete noob to User Spice but it is presenting some exciting possibilities.
The site I am designing is for orthopaedic surgeons. They are a bit straight laced for usernames (and I doubt they'd remember them anyway).
I was wondering if anyone could recommend the best way of autogenerating a membership number that would consist of, say, the year, month and date of joining, as well as a short unique number in case a few join on the same day (highly likely as we intend to relaunch the site soon). I had something like '20180820-001' in mind and would envisage displaying it in the account page and perhaps the topbar along with their first and last names.
Username looks pretty key to the whole construct - is it easy to switch that reliance to a membership number?
I'd like to leave the US code as intact as possible for headache-free upgrades so I am unsure if it is a good idea to tinker with either the id or username fields in the database.
Much obliged.
M