Hello Patrick,
It’s so nice to meet fellow Moodlers in this virtual space. I’ve seen your problem and allow me to try my hands on so that your problem gets resolved.
Coming to your problem; well, there’s an option, but this needs to be implemented with little touch of coding.
When an user profile is created, the First name and the Last name fields are mandatory. If you don’t want the First name field to be mandatory, please follow the steps mentioned below:
1.) Go to your Moodle folder; browse the user folder and open the file editlib.ph with any editor, for example notepad
Path: - your_Moodle_folder/user/editlib.php
2.) Search with the following keyword (using ctrl+f)
$mform->addRule('firstname', $strrequired, 'required', null, 'client');
Then replace the above line with
$mform->addRule('firstname', $strrequired, ' ', null, 'client');
Save the file.
After performing this, please feel free to create any user.
Hope this’ll resolve your issue. Keep Moodling!
Purnendu
Developer
