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This is from a Drupal perspective.

Summary

The field labels for fields in the UFMatch entity, that matches CiviCRM contacts to CMS users, do not accurately describe each field.

Steps to recreate

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Entity: UFMatch
Action: Create

Issue

Fields:

Label
Field name
What it relates to in Drupal

CMS ID
uf_id
Drupal user ID
This one is OK.

CMS Unique Identifier
uf_name
The email address of the Drupal user. So the label, field name and purpose are all out of sync. Although the email address would normally be a 'unique ID' in Drupal, it is much better to use the user ID. If this field stores the email address it should be labelled as such. The field name 'uf_name' suggests it contains the 'username'. I understand this is CMS independent, but the labeling here is quite misleading.