Type: users; save the username

Kirby 3 Questions 🤔
1

In my blueprint I can select an author via

fields:
  author:
    label: Author
    type: users

And in my projects it saves like this:

Author:
  - mail@outlook.de

Is there another way to store the authors Username without running scripts that deletes titles?
The usernames are unique and being used for searching.

2

Starting with 3.3.0, the user ID will be stored instead of the user email: https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/issues/1885

I’m not sure why it won’t be possible to store a custom value, maybe to make sure that a unique value is stored.

If you want to store something else, you could use a select/multiselect field instead of the users field.

3

I’ve created a multiselect field:

authors:
  type: multiselect
  options: query
  query: users

But it still saves the user with their mail…
I thought to use query: users.title but that does not work. How can I get the Title(Name) of the users? If I select an author, it shows their name, and not their mail.43 That bothers me.

4 
authors:
  type: multiselect
  options: query
  query:
    fetch: kirby.users
    text: "{{ user.somefield }}"
    value: "{{ user.somefield }}"
5

Hey I was thinking.
And looking at my search controller and couldn’t get behind the logic.

<?php

return function ($site) {

  $query   = get('q');
  $results = $site->search($query, 'title|tags|place|headline|author');


  return [
    'query'      => $query,
    'results'    => $results
  ];

};

at search($query, ‘…’); The controller looks into each title and has a ‘correct’ or ‘incorrect’ output. But since author is just a mail, can I somehow modify that it’ll convert the mail to a username? I do that in my frontend via

<?php $users =  $page->author()->toUsers();
foreach($users as $user): ?>
  <a href="<?= $site->url() ?>/authors/<?= $user->name()->slug() ?>"><?= $user->name() ?></a>
<?php endforeach ?>

Like that it’s a variable.

<?php

return function ($site) {

  $query      = get('q');
  $author     = $page->author()->toUsers(); 
  […]

  $results    = $site->search($query, 'title|tags|place|headline|author');


  return [
    'query'      => $query,
    'results'    => $results
  ];

};

I just want to convert the mail into a name like I do in the frontend. If I would now use multiselect fields I would have to rewrite som much :nauseated_face:

6

The search method is not very bright, it only goes through each individual field stored in the content file and looks for matches. And of course if you look for something other than what is stored, it won’t find anything.

Your best bet would be either another field type (why would you have to rewrite that much?), or a custom search method (I think that will be more work).

7

Or use the future version 3.3.0 of Kirby:

8

@anon77445132 That won’t help if you search for the user name. Nobody will search for a random number.

9

Hello texnixe, I used this code which works very well.

I would like to know how to put by default the name of the user who is connected to the panel? (to have the same behavior as a type: users).

default: ACM

              author:
                type: multiselect
                options: query
                query:
                  fetch: kirby.users
                  text: "{{ user.firstname }} {{ user.namefamily }}"
                  value: "{{ user.firstname }} {{ user.namefamily }}"
                default: ACM
                max: 1
                required: true
10

Why don’t you use the users field?

11

If I delete a user, I lose the name of the news author.

12

True. But I’m afraid you can’t use query language for the default value.

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13

What you could do, is store the current username via a hook or via a custom page model that overwrite the create function.