Imported placeholder users can't be converted to real users except by invitation

[camtarn]

Description

If you import users from another time tracker (e.g. Clockify, in my case) it creates the users as placeholders. This is great - except that it seems like the only way to convert placeholder users to real users in the admin UI is by inviting them to join the site - clicking the 'Is placeholder?' toggle doesn't do anything.

This wouldn't be as much of a problem, except that because of bug #1129, invites don't work when registration is disabled.

I'm not willing to turn on registration and risk random people from the Internet creating accounts, so I think this means I need to go fiddle about in the DB from the console.

Steps To Reproduce

1. Import users from another time tracker as placeholders
2. Load the placeholder user in the admin UI
3. Click the 'Is placeholder?' toggle

Expected - user is no longer a placeholder and password is required in admin UI; once password is provided, user can log in using that password
Actual - 'Is placeholder?' does not change

I also tried filling in the password in case there was a constraint that non-placeholder users must have a password - this did not change anything.
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Self-hosted or Cloud?

Self hosted

Version of solidtime: (for self-hosted)

0.19 via Docker Hub

solidtime self-hosting guide: (for self-hosted)

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[camtarn]

Here's what you need to do to convert users from the command line:

• Set the user's is_placeholder flag to false
• Give the user a new hashed password
• Set the user's current_team_id to the organization they should be part of

Also, projects import as private by default, so you need to either make projects all public, or create project membership entries to link users to their corresponding projects.

[Onatcer]

Converting placeholders to regular users only works via invitations by design. We can disable the is_placeholder toggle in the super admin panel, but I don't see a reason to add another flow for signing up users via the admin ui.

[camtarn]

If invitations didn't have to go through the regular registration flow, and thus they don't work if registrations are disabled (#1129), I would agree - the existing invite flow is simple and well designed. An alternate flow is only required because of #1129.

Please feel free to just close this if #1129 is fixed, but if that issue is not fixed, an alternate flow of some kind will be necessary for anybody who wants to import their current users and convert them to real users.