[ic] Incomplete User Account Setup

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Barry Treahy, Jr.)]

Dan Browning wrote:

> At 06:04 PM 10/16/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>
>> I have found that some folks have managed to create accounts with 
>> incomplete information.  What they appear to be doing is completing 
>> the username/password screen and then filling in portions of the 
>> account information, committing the page and, at which point I 
>> presume, they are either re-entering the site and then placing their 
>> order or backing up through their browser history.  The bottom line 
>> is that they are circumventing the error checks for the required 
>> account fields.  I have managed to duplicate this myself and if 
>> worked, well failed depending on your perspective.
>>
>> Has anyone else encountered this and if so, how have you worked 
>> around it?  I have thought about modifying the login page to manually 
>> check for required fields and if any are missing, bounce to the 
>> accounts page, but this makes the site more 'high-maintenance' if 
>> additional fields are added in the future that are 'required.'
>>
>> Any suggestions or ideas?
>
>
> The foundation checkout order profile should stop users who don't have 
> required fields.  Have you modified it? 

Yes, actually I had but I had also removed all of the ability to modify 
the 'account' information from the checkout page, so I suspect that is 
part of the reason it wasn't effective.  Additionally, I have another 
section for RFQ's where the standard order processing wasn't used, so it 
appears in both cases I created my own little problem...

Barry

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