User self-registration

[muety]

Currently, most users fill the registration form by hand and we digitize it afterwards by copying their information into our system. This is a bit time-consuming and sometimes error-prone.

Would be cool if users could register themselves online, are being e-mailed their new user ID and will only have to verified with their id card on site.

Implementation via a WordPress form that calls out to a webhook running on GHA?

[skjerns]

That would be a great feature!

Some thoughts

• Some manual checking involved in the pipeline before inserting them into the couchdb might a good idea,
  • to prevent spam and "karteileichen" of people that never actually showed up?
  • currently there is no status badge in the LeihlokalVerwaltungssoftware to indicate that a person has been validated
  • with the WPHourAppointment plugin we have a form plugin where each entry also has a "status" badge, so it could be set to "pending", "perso validated" and only inserted into the db after manual setting?
  • However, the new ID could only be issued once the person is in the couchDB
• Probably best to delete the user data from the WP database after transfer to CouchDB, so there's minimal dataloss in case of a breach