adding user via My Collaboration creates account, sends empty welcome message, user has no password

[tilfischer]

Dear all,

I have recently added someone to "My Collaboration" in Chemotion Repository. This researcher did not signed up before. I added the ORCID iD, which fetched the First Name and Last Name. Subsequently, I added the email address and affiliation and pressed "create and save".

The user I added received an empty welcome message (connected to https://github.com/ComPlat/chemotion_REPO/issues/74), but did not receive any instructions on how to set the password. A workaround is to go to https://www.chemotion-repository.net/users/sign_in and press "Forgot your password?". However, this is just a workaround.

If someone gets an account by someone else adding this users to My Collaboration, the user should not receive and empty welcome message, but a welcome message also providing instructions how to set a password.

Best, Tillmann

[tilfischer]

Another workaround to login is to login via ORCID iD. Then, the user might go to -> Change password and add a new password. However, the prompt also asked for the Current password, which was not set. Leaving this blank gives an error message Current password can't be blank

[tilfischer]

Another thing of interest when people are registered by someone else via My Collaboration is that the user getting registered has no choice on the Name abbreviation (Kürzel).