Key questions about this property
The answers below summarize the purpose, scope, default effect, and review scenarios for this property.
| What does it do? |
When enabled, this property generates UserIDs based on the user's email address, preventing conflicts for users with identical names and altering the behavior of user creation functions. |
| What area does it affect? |
User Management |
| What does the default mean? |
The default value is "true", which means this behavior is enabled by default. |
| When should you review it? |
Review this property when configuring user creation settings or addressing user ID conflicts. |
Out of the box property record
Raw metadata from the property record.
| Property name |
glide.email.create_userid_from_email |
| Sys ID |
493683b797113000715a390ddd29758c |
| Type |
boolean |
| Application |
Global |
| Default value |
true |
| Description |
When set to true, causes new users to be created with a UserID that matches their email address instead of firstname.lastname. This helps create unique UserIDs when two users with the same name send emails to an instance. Also changes the behavior of gs.createUser() to match the entire email address of the user (including the domain name), instead of just the first part of the email in front of the @-sign. |
| Updated |
2024-05-25 04:25:05 |
Sources
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... The method the instance uses to create users can be upgraded to use the full email address by activating the Email Automatic User Creation plugin. The plugin sets the property glide.email.create_userid_from_email to true by default. After activating the plugin, enable automatic user creation from email. Note: The glide.email.create_userid_from_email is not used by the system when the record is created using record ...
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