Feature: Configurable frontend user phone number types
Description
Telephone and fax numbers imported from frontend users no longer carry the
hard-coded values phone and fax, which are not selectable in the shipped
phone-number type list. Two new extension configuration options say which type
each source field imports as:
profile.feuser.telephoneNumberType = business
profile.feuser.faxNumberType = businessBoth default to business, which is part of the shipped
types.phoneNumberTypes. Each value is validated against that list
before it is written: a value the installation does not offer falls back to the
undefined type '', which the backend select ships as its first item. The
synchronization therefore never writes a type the backend cannot resolve.
An existing selectable type is an editor decision and is left alone. Only the
two historical values are corrected, and only where they are not selectable on
that installation: an installation that genuinely offers phone or fax as
types keeps them.
See Important: Imported telephone records use a stable identifier for the changed import identifier of telephone records.
Impact
New and updated imports carry a configured, selectable type. Without any
configuration, the next
academic: or
academic: run writes business where an imported
record still carries an unselectable phone or fax.
Installations that want the imported numbers typed differently, or not typed at all, set the two options in Admin Tools > Settings > Extension Configuration for academic_persons. No other configuration changes.
Affected Installations
Installations that import profiles from frontend users with
academic: or
academic:.