# Error when trying to view an email from a user's preference page
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-trying-to-view-an-email-from-a-users-preference-page/26724
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [March 24, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-when-trying-to-view-an-email-from-a-users-preference-page/26724 "2015-03-24T22:24:59Z")
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I’ve recently updated one of the forums I’m working on. [944c0db](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/944c0db00f928fc7e782b22df0c250505d740709)
I’m bouncing back and forth between Admin and User’s preference page trying to fill in some full names. Viewing someone’s email will tell me who they are, but if I do it from the user’s profile page I get this error, which is logged:
```plaintext
Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function
Url: [FQDN]/assets/application-ea98de13baf37557a958317a1bc29054.js
Line: 34
Column: 69
Window Location: [FQDN]/users/[any-user]/preferences?undefined-renamed=&undefined-renamed=&undefined-renamed=&undefined-renamed=
```
There is no problem viewing their email address from the admin page, but I [can’t fix](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-full-name-in-admin/26506) their `Full Name` there. :grumpycat:
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Nothing special, just clicking the Show Email button of a user, when logged in as an admin.
You already have access to the forum in question, I’ll PM you a link to the log itself.
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Update
I’ve upgraded to what’s currently master, and can reproduce the issue Safari and Chrome.
If I visit any user’s `/users/garret/preferences` view as an admin, clicking `Show` gives this error.
Also, the full name wasn’t included in emails today ( in the same email where I said they should. ☹ )
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Hmm this one is tricky, I think it depends where you came from. Sometimes I can repro, sometimes I cannot. Can you walk us through it, click by click?
Start from a new browser and the home page.
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- click on home logo
- go to admin/users
- click on a user from the list (admin/users/mike)
- click `show`
- fix their title
- click Show Public Profile
- click Preferences
- click `show` on email ← error
- fix their full name
Same thing when starting from the list of posts
- Click the home logo
- scroll down to someone’s icon who’s posted lately
- click their logo to get their activity page
- click Preferences
- Click `Show` on email ← error
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- No repro on the first list of steps, oddly, when I get to the user page I have email already visible…
- Second list of steps is a repro for me. Page just refreshes when I click “show” on email in that case.
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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> I have email already visible…
I assumed this was normal behavior when I’d already asked to view their email in the same session.. choosing a different user let me have the “need to click to show” experience.
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> Window Location: [FQDN]/users/[any-user]/preferences?undefined-renamed=&undefined-renamed=&undefined-renamed=&undefined-renamed=
I had a similar error last week when I refactored a `