[ckan-discuss] Error in /user/edit

Mon Dec 5 13:56:26 GMT 2011

Thank you very much for the soothing words. :)

By the way, worth noting: I'm very impressed with the constant evolution of
the CKAN user experience. Congrats to the people making it happen!

Best,
Pablo

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> Two points:
>
> * A piece of bad UX: if you change your username you have to logout
> and log back in. We should force this by auto-logging you out!
>
> * Re your number of edits. That hasn't gone it is just connected with
> your old username. We can reconnect that pretty easily (and have a
> longer term solution that involves not using the usernames but the
> userids in in the Revision objects so we don't hvae this problem in
> future!)
>
> Rufus
>
> On 5 December 2011 11:34, Pablo Mendes <pablomendes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > OK. Thanks Richard. That solves the login problem, but scares the heck
> out
> > of me. It went from 540 edits to 0 edits. And I'm reporting that number
> > tomorrow in a review meeting.  :-O
> >
> > Any chance we can get that reverted?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Pablo
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Richard Cyganiak <richard at cyganiak.de>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Pablo, do you still see “My Account | Logout” when you go to the site?
> If
> >> so, click “Logout” and try logging in again. I often see a problem where
> >> half the system thinks that I'm logged in, while the other half insists
> I'm
> >> not. Logout then login again may fix it.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Richard
> >>
> >>
> >> On 5 Dec 2011, at 11:14, Pablo Mendes wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Hi all,
> >> > I am unable to edit my profile here:
> >> > http://thedatahub.org/user/edit/PlanetDataEditor
> >> >
> >> > I got:
> >> >
> >> > Errors in form
> >> > The form contains invalid entries:
> >> > Name: Url must be purely lowercase alphanumeric (ascii) characters and
> >> > these symbols: -_
> >> >
> >> > As it says "Url must be..." I thought the error was with the OpenID.
> >> > Took me quite a while to connect "Name" to username (this is how the
> >> > field is called in the form).
> >> >
> >> > I then changed the username to all lowercase, and it went through.
> But I
> >> > don't seem to be able to log in anymore to either "PlanetDataEditor"
> or
> >> > "planetdataeditor". I'm basically locked out. Any help?
> >> >
> >> > The description of my user also cannot contain a URL as "it looks like
> >> > spam". Maybe a captcha for URLs in that field would be enough,
> instead of
> >> > barring links completely?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Pablo
> >> >
> >> >
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