Author Topic: email should serve as a username (Read 537 times)

Roi · February 17, 2015, 02:07:26 am

Hi, I am using profiles for a registration form for one of my Individual-based contacts.
I want:

new users to have a valid email
new users to be registered as drupal users so their context serves other drupal modules
user's username should be the email address, as done in MANY sites today.

In the profile advanced settings I checked as follows
Drupal user account registration option? Account creation required
and the form asks for Username IN ADDITION to Email.

How do I make the form ask for Email only AND create a drupal user with this username?

thanks

joanne · February 17, 2015, 02:46:44 am

This is a question for a Drupal forum, not the CiviCRM forums as the requirements for creating a Drupal user account are determined by Drupal.

If you google "drupal account creation email only no username" you should find some answers amongst the results.

BTW There are good reasons why the default account creation in Drupal requires a username as well as an email address. For example in Drupal you can allow people to comment on posts. Allowing anonymous posts is open to abuse, but it is much safer for would-be posters to be identified by a username rather than their email address.

Another BTW. Be careful with bolding and capitals when you post topics. For me at least, the formatting of "user's username should be the email address, as done in MANY sites today." implies you were thinking "and this software (and the people who make it) are so stupid for making people choose a username as well". That might not have been the case, but it is open to that interpretation.

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Roi

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