Yahoo available AX attrs

Peter Watkins peterw at tux.org
Mon Dec 7 15:25:56 UTC 2009


On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 09:16:46AM +0100, Chris Obdam wrote:
> > Chris (Obdam)  - which additional attributes would you like to see available? The attributes that we’ll be adding early next year will include Yahoo Profile URL and account creation date. A bunch of people have asked for Flickr Photos URL and Upcoming Profile URL, so we’ll probably get around to adding those too.
> I would like to access every attr specified in de AXschema? :-)
> 
> In my Yahoo profile i have provided my address (home and work). I would like to use those in a sign form somewhere else.
> Same goes for my phone numbers.

So would I. One of the simpler goals of our Single Sign On is prepopulating
form fields; having postal address and phone number would be a help.

I'd also like to see First and Last names available as separate attributes,
otherwise we're trying to intelligently split both "Mary Jane Parker" and
"Malcom Mac Murray".

Also I would prefer that you give us the user's *primary* email address. In
my Yahoo profile, my Yahoo email address is flagged as "Share with no one"
and I have a different email address flagged as primary, but your AX sends 
my yahoo email address. That's bad from usability in part because I very,
very seldom check my Yahoo email inbox.

The Yahoo website attribute would also be nice to have; as we start 
building more "social" features on our sites, it would be nice to make
it easier for our users to share links to their primary web presences,
although I can understand if Yahoo management prefers to only expose the 
Profile URL for business reasons.

Thanks,

Peter



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