Editing Using Internal IDs for Staff Browse Views (section)

== Solution ==
By default, when adding creators to an EPrint, as well as a field for given name and family name there is also a column for '''Email''', this is just labelled as such but is actually named '''creators_id''' and therefore can be any unique identifier for the user.  However, it is important that the unique identifier used is consistent, (i.e. it is always an email address or another unique identifier used by your institution/organisation).  In general, it is best to retain email address as a unique identifier, as you may wish to use this to allow visitors to you repository to contact creators (authors), also you may want to record the email address of creators who are not part of your institution/organisation.  Therefore for this solution, we will assume that another unique identifier will be used separate to email address.

Lets assume that your institution/organisation has a public members/staff ID that you want to use.  To ensure that this members/staff ID is adding whenever this person is added as a creator, you can use  [[Autocompletion]].  Autocompletion can be setup to use the users records within EPrints.  This assumes that you have generated accounts for all your members/staff.  This can often be done using [[LDAP]].