[image] Allow admins to change email addresses easily disable the site setting Sorry to resurrect this, but how do I do this? I’m one of the admins who has zero clue about anything and doesn’t understand tech stuff so I apologise in advance for my ignorance! I’ve had some members ask me to do…

Thank you so much! I want to be the only person able to edit emails, but going forward I will just quickly enable this setting, edit, and then disable it.

[image] Isla: I want to be the only person able to edit emails, but going forward I will just quickly enable this setting, edit, and then disable it. I’m not sure I understand - if you don’t want users to be able to edit their email addresses after sign-up, then just leave it disabled. Admin…

I can’t edit anyone’s email, even my own, without enabling that setting.

Something isn’t right then. As an Admin you can always change email addresses. Are you using SSO?

My apologies, but I don’t know what that is.

[image] Lilly: Admins are always able to edit email addresses even if that setting is disabled (it doesn’t apply to Admins). How do I edit the address in that case? While I can see the wrench if email_editable is enabled, I cannot see it after disabling the setting. [wrench to edit the ema…

Hi @Isla we are currently looking into this more closely and will update this topic. It appears you were correct that the setting needs to be disabled then re-enabled after the admin makes the change. I’m sorry for the misunderstanding with this - we do usually have admin overrides on most settin…

Thank you so much, Lilly. I really appreciate it.

Changing email addresses not working as an Admin

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Lilly (Lillian ) August 23, 2024, 6:37am 2

I think this is the setting you want - it is in admin - site settings (in users section, but you can find it with the settings filter)

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Changing email addresses not working as an Admin

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