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Hi there,
I’m trying to create pages for my podcast guests. I don’t want to have a “sign up” process, I hopefully would like to create the accounts myself with a Username and Password (no email or anything) and then pass that log in information to the guest so they can access their page to find out their session date/time and episode topics etc. (Information will be stored in a collection and pull their corrosponding data using their username as a filter or something along those lines, so the info can stay up to date)

I’m struggling to find a way to manually create accounts and use a simple Username and Password credentials as opposed to inviting and having to use personal info such as email etc.

Is this possible at all or is just something that cannot be done? Or is there a good workaround using Velo and storing the “Username” and “Password” in a custom collection and displaying the data linked to the “username” field if the “password” field matches said username.

Many thanks! Sorry if this is a stupid question, and I feel i’ve explained it horrendously, I’m out of my depth here but really want to learn!

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Your wished function can be realized. How?

Create a custom Login/Sign-Up-page and an own DATABASE, where you will create some predefined emails + usernames for login → this will be a kind of → LOGIN-BYPASS.

How it will work ?

  1. You will have first to register one or multiple emails adding them a related username, and store these created login-data into a DATABASE —> (Bypass-DB) .

  2. When a user tries to login with predefined username and password, the BYPASS will do his job.

What is exactly the BYPASS in this situation?
Instead of using an email to login, the user can type in a user or nickname + password . During the submission your function do NOT start the LOGIN-PROCESS emmidiately → instead it first searches/filters for (already) manual registered email and puts this email into the e-mail-field of the related username/nickname for LOGIN.

  1. Problem solved, you have your manual predefined MEMBERS, which even can login to your site without a need of an email

Problem solved :grin:

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Ahh thank you! This will work nicely!
Your answer is much appreciated :slight_smile:

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How is going your project? Did you already have any success?
If not, you can send me an e-mail (to be found in my profile).

Interessted into your thoughts and use-case.
Which functionalities do you want to have in your login?

…would like to create the accounts myself with a Username and Password (no email or anything)
Completely without e-mail not possible as mentioned already in my post above.
So YOU as ADMIN will be able to create the LOGIN-ACCOUNTs, right?

Something like this one?

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  • and then pass that log in information to the guest so they can access their page to find out their session date/time and episode topics etc.
    Perhaps via a automatic e-mail-notification?
  1. Seems to be a good idea…

(Information will be stored in a collection and pull their corrosponding data using their username as a filter or something along those lines, so the info can stay up to date)
Perhaps two different and separated DATABASES, one for REGISTRATION-INFO
→ Bypass-DB and one for all your other stuff.

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You would be able to pull corresponding USER-DATA out of your SECOND created STUFF-DB → using the USER/OWNER-ID after logging-in.

Something like that.

Storing a password like shown in this example-DB-pic is even not needed.
It would just be enough to use eMail and username/nickname only.
Storing passwords inside DBs is surely not the best way, at least you would have to set your DB-Permission to a very high level, if doing it this way.

Also do not forget to set the type of password-DB-field as → poassword…

As you can see → i am interested into your idea :grin:

A first part-solution and how it works, you will find soon here…

https://russian-dima.wixsite.com/login-system/vnloginmgm

Especialy for your use-case, first navigate to → GENERAL-OPTIONS in the SETUP-SECTION and set the current-active REGISTRATION-FORM to → SIMPLE.

This setting will allow you to use the BYPASS-LOGIN (as shown in one of the pics above) later.

…to be continued…

Tell me your thoughts…:wink:

BTW: Right now you are not really able to use the SIMPLE-LOGIN inself, but soon, when a newer Version is out!

EDIT: Some UPDATE.
This is how it could look & work like in your case…

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