ORCID profile creation - each new registration requires a new email address

[dgcoleman-zz]

Hi.

This seems to be a bit of a logistical headache.

As part of the initial registration process a user needs to provide email address, first name and last name. The email address needs to be unique. Use one that is already registered and the system seems to require that you log in using that email address rather than allowing you to register again. At the same time, the email address has to be a real address since that's where the confirmation email gets sent.

What this means in short is that repeated attempts to register while developing/debugging mean that one rapidly runs out of usable email addresses.

Is there any way that we can facilitate development by either (a) short circuiting the requirement for a unique email address with each registration or (b) offering some way to delete email addresses (profiles)? Or maybe there is another way around this.

Thanks.

D

[wjrsimpson]

Hi Dennis,

Here's what I have been doing to get round this.

If your email address is as follows

abc@gmail.com

you can also recieve email that is sent to

abc+123@gmail.com

or

abc+456@gmail.com

In other words, everything from + onward is ignored.

It certainly works with gmail, but other mail servers seem to support it too.

ORCID sees abc+123@gmail.com and abc+456@gmail.com as different users, so it gets round the requirement of having a unique but real address.

Will

[dgcoleman-zz]

That worked. Many thanks.

D

[wjrsimpson]

Great. Thanks for letting me know, Dennis.