User manager - directory editing

This page allows you to alter the details that appear in the internal directory for a given user. The internal directory only contains information associated with users, but does not have to contain information about all the users, or even any of them.

The first name and last name are special. They will be retained even if you remove somebody's directory details. Everything else will be lost if you click the "Remove all directory details for user n" button.

Clicking the "Save these values to directory for user n" button will create a directory entry, if there isn't one already, and will put the contents of this page into it.

The title should be something like Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr, etc. rather than their job title.

The first name and last name will be used in all the normal interfaces in the system - identifying the submitter of a news article, following helpdesk calls, even the title bar has this information placed there.

The email address field can be left blank. If an address is entered here, a link will be created on the user's directory details page and the main directory listing screen, allowing users to start an email to this person with one click.

The telephone and mobile telephone numbers, in addition to being displayed on the user's details page, are shown on the main directory screen.

The post field is intended to be the user's job title. Anything can be typed in here.

The location and team fields are drop-down lists. The lists can be edited in the "Teams and locations" page. If there have been no teams or locations defined, there won't be any real choices to be made here. If the team and location that this user is in are deleted, they will revert to "Alone" and "Nowhere", respectively.

The line manager field is a drop-down list of all the users on the system. If the manager's account is deleted from the system, the manager field will revert to "Nobody".

To change an ex-directory user's name without them being in the directory, you must first change their name and click the Save button, then you must delete the automatically created directory entry with the Remove button. The name will remain changed, and the user will be ex-directory.