[SOLVED] Create Member Database of OFFLINE users, no email addresses used by members.

Hello,

I am building an Intranet for a company where the members are about 98% offline, no email addresses.

We do not need to create passwords for these members, either. I can set the password to automatically generate, so that should work well, but I want that area to be invisible to the Managers who will be creating the new Members.

If not CB, then not CB. I need to at least make a Member Group that does not require an email address, nor a password.

Alternate solution would be to change the submission limit of the email field to allow something that does not fit the criteria of a valid email address. Such as firstnamelastnamebirthdate only. Like, 'anyname071769', because we are using the birthdate to differentiate users/members with same name.


Thoughts? Thank you!

J

PS: The goal is to attach documents/files to a member/user. Eventually, we will turn this on for online users, so CB was chosen for that purpose. Are there any suggestions for making a document/file 'gallery' attached to a member/user, and not require email address and password? Thanks!

You're trying to disable core fields to Joomla. This is not possible. They are required by Joomla user object and thus required by CB. So they must be filled out, but they don't have the be valid. For example you can give them fake email addresses like the following.

username@cb.invalid

or

username@domain.internal

Doesn't particularly matter what it is exactly, but it has to exist regardless.

Hello!

Thank you for the suggestion, Sir. Perfect.

I did see a post about this topic, but it was about six years old, so thought I'd see if there was something new. Your suggestion worked great. Thanks!

Best....