User Registration

[richard-jones]

Provide a user registration environment, including an editable "personal details" page.

[richard-jones]

The workflow for creating a new user is as follows:

1. User provides email address
2. The system registers user against whitelist of email address domains (we need a text file containing allowed domain names)
3. If the address is not whitelisted, registration is immediately rejected with explanation
4. If the account already exists and is banned, the user's registration is rejected with explanation
5. If the account already exists and is deleted, then remove deleted status and carry on as if new registration (7)
6. If the account already exists and is not deleted or banned then registration is not necessary; redirect to forgotten password functionality
7. System creates initial user account and sets activation_token and activation_expires
8. User receives confirmation email with activation link
9. User follows activation link and sets password and initial registration details
10. User is immediately logged in and taken to search page

The account details to be registered are (unless specified, fields are optional):

• Institutional Email [required]
• Full Name [required]
• Degree
• Home Postcode [recommended]
• Mobile number
• Year of graduation

We will need to be able to geolocate the user's postcode, which will require integration with Google Maps API.

[richard-jones]

Some implementation notes:

• we won't need the whitelist at this stage, as there is only one institution in the pilot. But we should build the infrastructure for it at least, and have just the one institution in the list
• To do emailing we use a third party SMTP service, though it may be worth uniboard setting up its own (free) account, and us using those credentials. I can advise as necessary.
• Portality contains some user registration features which we can start from, but they won't be sufficient to support this workflow without heavy customisation.

[richard-jones]

A couple of change requests from today's meeting:

• Could we change the label "Degree" to "Course"
• The activation email has the wording of a forgotten password email - can we have two different email texts for activation and forgotten password?

[richard-jones]

Text changes made