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  • March 13, 2023
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Daniele Cmty
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Hi there, lots of our end users have the following issue:

If a user clicks on “reset password”, they will be told that “we emailed you password reset instructions” even if they inserted an email that is not registered. 
Instead, I would expect the message: “you are not registered to this community with this email address.”

Why does it matter?

We have 2 separate communities that look almost exactly the same (different language). On a daily basis, users will try to log in to the “wrong” community to which they have no account to. They login fails, and the error message says “wrong email and/or password”. So they assume their password is wrong, because they obviously think they are registered (but they are registered in the other community).

So they click on “forgot password”, enter their email, and get the following message

 

 

But that’s a lie, because they did not get any reset instructions; they got no email at all.

So then they try again and again and end up frustrated.

So they write us an email trying to get help, (which we have to answer every time), or even worse, they give up and stop trying to use the community altogether.

Instead, it would be good if they were told the truth: that they are not registered to this community. 

 

 

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Daniele Cmty
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  • March 15, 2023

Playvox does it perfectly:

“We were not able to find any accounts associated with this domain”.


If it was an editable phrase, we could even use the message below. “is your account in a different community?...”

 

 


Daniele Cmty
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  • March 15, 2023

But even just telling the customer that they don’t have an account, that would already be enough!


Sebastian
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  • March 23, 2023

The challenge with letting someone logging in know whether someone exists or does not exist on a social platform is a security risk. Theoretically, you could go to a (closed) competitor’s community and learn this way whether a customer or prospect is active here.

That’s the reason we won’t be solving this programmatically, but you can change the phrase for this in Customization > Phrases by searching for ‘password’. A very common way to phrase this is ‘If account exists, an email will be sent with further instructions’.


Sebastian
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  • March 23, 2023
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Daniele Cmty
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  • March 23, 2023

Hi @Sebastian, thank you for explaining the background, that makes sense!

Good call with adapting the phrase; I will make sure to include a message that names a few different solutions. Something along the lines of “if you don’t receive a message, please check your spam folder. If you don’t receive an email, maybe you don’t have an account in this community. Please check  on our .com or .de community as well”  


Daniele Cmty
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  • March 24, 2023

Hi @Sebastian 

Is this the one you mean?
Seems like a different one 🤔

 

 


Daniele Cmty
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  • March 24, 2023

 

 

These are the ones I’d like to change: 

 

but i couldn’t find them...

 


Sebastian
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  • March 24, 2023

@Daniele Cmty If the ID phrases on your instance match the ones on inSpired (which I’m checking right now), here’s the two phrases you can modify to achieve your desired result:

https://[yourinstanceid].insided.com/settings/translation/edit?id=132

https://[yourinstanceid].insided.com/settings/translation/edit?id=42

Let me know if that works.

 


Daniele Cmty
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  • March 24, 2023

Thanks for sharing!
Strange, I am getting an entirely different phrase..

 

 

 

 

 


Daniele Cmty
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  • July 10, 2023

Hi there, I still was not able to change the following phrase.

 

 

I still get weekly emails from users who apparently don’t receive the reset instructions (because they don’t know they attempted to log in to the wrong community)
it’s important for me to change that phrase so I can explain to customers that they may not be registered in this community, but rather in the other version. 
 

@olimarrio @Hugo can somebody follow up on my above question to @Sebastian ?

 


Daniele Cmty
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  • July 10, 2023

 

Any clue how i can change the phrase? i haven’t been able to find it on the frontend or backend.


olimarrio
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  • July 10, 2023

Hey @Daniele Cmty 👋,

For this:

You can add the following phrase:

Module: Forum

Key: An e-mail has been sent to you containing an URL where you can reset your password. If you click on the link in the e-mail, you can change your password.

 

Let me know if there were any other hidden phrases you were still looking for here.


Daniele Cmty
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  • July 11, 2023

That did the job @olimarrio, thank you!!

btw: I did not know that I can add my own phrases! 🤯 I thought only what’s available on the list can be changed.



 


Daniele Cmty
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  • July 11, 2023

@olimarrio now I wonder if there are more phrases that I want to change (and can add), but didn’t know I could 🤔

 

Is there anywhere I can find a list of all available phrases?