By Dave Parker on Tuesday, 19 August 2014
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Hey.
Maybe someone will have an idea on this. We're looking at possibly deploying ES in the school I work for. It will be primarily used by the students to teach them how social networks behave, and to give them a place to exchange their thoughts and ideas with each other, and it will only be available internally.
However... Joomla has a limitation where you have to supply an email address when creating an account. None of our students have a school email account. So when they try to register, the system won't process their details as they cannot put an email account in.
Anyone got any ideas how to get around this? I can understand the logistics in everyday publicly available websites why Joomla is written like this, but in a school environment, it's potentially squashing my plans to roll this out.
Dave
You can always modify the joomla_email custom field so that the email will be automatically generated instead of requiring them to enter any email at all
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Wednesday, 20 August 2014 00:16
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Hi Mark.
When you say "modify" you mean basically re-engineering the field to add a randomising function in it? If so, any hints as I've not done that before?
Dave

(p.s. why are you still up at this unholy hour?!)
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Wednesday, 20 August 2014 00:37
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Hello Dave,

I think it's more of just generating a random email based of your domain. This way, you just hide the process of setting an email address from the user.
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Wednesday, 20 August 2014 01:36
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@Dave, in a past life I provided technology integration consultation to a large school district using Wordpress (sorry, I didn't know about EasyBlog back then We had the same problem and I followed an old trick using Gmail you can read about here.
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Friday, 22 August 2014 00:02
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Thanks for sharing Eileen
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Friday, 22 August 2014 00:24
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