We will be using Umbraco for instructors and students; at some point down the line, most of our students will likely be minors, and students at public schools. Our current website has tens of thousands of such students.
Therefore we cannot require that students have email addresses. In many or most states (in the U.S.) we wouldn't be legally allowed to contact students via email address, and in some cases it might be against the law to even have their email address.
Student password retrieval will be up to instructors or our administrators.
Is it possible to avoid the email requirement for members?
Avoid Email Requirement for (Some) Members
We will be using Umbraco for instructors and students; at some point down the line, most of our students will likely be minors, and students at public schools. Our current website has tens of thousands of such students.
Therefore we cannot require that students have email addresses. In many or most states (in the U.S.) we wouldn't be legally allowed to contact students via email address, and in some cases it might be against the law to even have their email address.
Student password retrieval will be up to instructors or our administrators.
Is it possible to avoid the email requirement for members?
Hi Jackson,
what you can do is enter a default "dummy" email address.
But this requires that you change a setting in your web.config because standard you can't have members with the same email address.
I had the same requirement in one of my projects. You can read this on my blog page: http://www.ucodebase.be/blog/import-members-into-umbraco-from-a-csv-file-using-the-memberservice/ under Define the member type you will see in the last paragraph how to disable unique email addresses.
/Michaël
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