Alternative identity sources

[mackensen]

I have a weird edge case where I need to treat Banner as non-authoritative for identity data (firstname, lastname) in a handful of cases. My planned implementation is something like this:

• Have a custom user field for indicating what the canonical source of truth is
• Do something in process_person_tag with that custom field so that LMB still processes the record but doesn't overwrite certain fields

I think this is too niche to ever be incorporated into the plugin, but others might run into this use case or have ideas about how best to implement it.

[ericmerrill]

Yeah, that sounds reasonable enough. Although without really digging into it, I don't have any specific guidance.