Using the plugin with alphanumerical idnumber

[jonathanjoegit]

Hello,

We would like to use your plugin but we have an issue with the idnumber.
In our University, the idnumber is with one letter and numbers (l213248 or s203234 or d210389), it seems not working because of this.

Do you have a solution for us ?

Thank you.

Jonathan

[univietw]

Hi Jonathan,
thanks for the question.
In special cases there is a solution:
IF for every student the alphabetic part is the same you could fix this by changing the useridentification to include it. e.g. if all idnumbers start with an s and then 6 numbers it could look like this:
s[6]=idnumber
If this is not the case you are out of luck. The only way would be to use another user field and write an update script.
e.g.: use the column phone2 (or whatever column you like) and translate the character to a 2 digit number:
A->01
B->02
C->03
...
So your example numbers would be
l213248-> 12213248
s203234-> 19203234
d210389-> 04210389

with this you could use
[8]=phone2
as useridentification and tell your students how to find the number

Another way is to just use the user id which everybody can find out themselves in the profile URL

I'd be really happy to support character recognition since this an often requested feature, but sadly it is not on our schedule for the next releases. Feel free to open a pull request though.