Client/User - Unique Email Address?
Submitted by PaulKostro on Sat, 02/23/2008 - 14:17.
I just started using PP. It appears that a User associated with a Client must have a UNIQUE email address (i.e., two users cannot share the same email address) -- is that correct? If yes, why? TIA. Paul.
Why would two separate entities have the same email? A client is not a user so they wouldn't share an email. As well, another user is not the same user so again they shouldn't be sharing.
One very important factor would be that what if one person forgot their password, and it gets sent to an email account that you don't have access to, cause you use someone else's, and they are out getting super trashed and left their phone at home.
As well I don't give the Client (parent) an email address because they don't sign in and they will just get emails about stuff they can't see. Only set up users with email addresses in my personal opinion. Could be different from others but I deal with one or two people at most in my projects so they already get the email about the sweet new interface I just designed for them.
I can give you an example of when duplicate e-mail addresses are desirable. I administrate as well use PP. Therefore the administrator's account as well as my personal account both need to go to the same e-mail address. In any case, why should this be a restriction? It should be up to the individual installer. It should at least be an option you can turn on and off.
Mark C.
I have clients that are still in the beginning stages of getting "online", and they basically have one email (companyname@comcast.net for example) that is checked by the office manager, but eventually there are two different people there I may need to give separate access to.
Once the second person gets online enough to each have their own email account, then you can edit the original account to use a different email address and add the new person with his email address.
I think having unique email addresses is a good thing and providing for duplicates would add unnecessary complexity to the notifications class.