One of the admins in charge of members joining says that he used to be able to enter an email and password in their profile before they ever joined.

Then he would send the classmate the email and password (he created) and they could log in and then change their profile, etc.

It can't be done that way now.

Was this ever true? thx

Jack,

I did that every time to make it a little easier for the "new" classmate or visitor . Worked fine. In My e-mail back to them I took the opportunity to welcome them and advised that if they encountered any problems just e-mail me or call me. Worked great, especially for visitors that we signed up.

Regards,

Sam T. (Roosevelt High School - 1958 Class, Atlanta, Georgia)

Thank you for confirming the information. That's exactly what our admin said - worked great. But he can no longer do this.

Are you using the new social profile format?

If you are, could you please check to see if you can still add a password. Unless there's something else, right now we can't enter a password if a person has not joined.

Could be a bug in just social profiles??

Jack,

"Are you using the new social profile format?" No.

Can no longer enter a password before the member joins.

Sam T.

Thank you again Sam for checking.

I'll post in "bugs so we can have that handy feature back.

I think this "feature" was only available if you were adding invisible guests (classmate/guest does not show up on the class list. It is an option on the DETAILS page and it is still there).

The only way in the past for you to enter the password was to actually JOIN HERE for the classmate and create their profile. Then you could email them their password because you don't get a password until you create your profile.

An "invisible guest" doesn't have a profile, so he needs to have his password sent to him.

Don't think that's the case. I've never done it, but the admin that does do this insists he used to be able to do that. And Sam verified above that he also used to do this.

We've never had "invisible guests".

Kyle Erickson wrote:

I have confirmed with Brad. It was never that way and will not be changed.

If you want to enter a password for the classmate, just JOIN HERE for the classmate and enter the password.

Not to belabor this point, BUT I am positive of my previous statement. Not looking to stir the pot, just confirming the veracity of my statement above.

Thank you Sam. I'm getting the same response from the admin that did this.

Admin that did this just emailed me back:

Quote:

I don't think anyone at CC ever did this and really doesn't remember. Unless they want to say that BOTH of you couldn't have done that

I'll give some other evidence that supports what they are saying in the BUG area.

Sammy Thurmond wrote:

That's fine, but there is already a way to do it, so click JOIN HERE and do it that way.

Thank you Jack. The way that your administrator described was the same way that I did it (minus the phone no. - I included my phone no. along with Welcome comments in my e-mail back to the member/guest). This looks to me to be a case where two good minds see eye to eye.

Regards,

Sam T.

Not exactly. It's not nearly as easy and clean Kyle. Just follow what happens the way you describe and the prior method.

Why not make it easy? Or just explain why it was changed. Somebody had some sort of rationale here.

Kyle Erickson wrote: