Trello non-existant user

[Louise Rutland]

I'd like to have a non-existant user in Trello to represent a third party who won't have access to Trello to show tasks that need to be referred to another company.  I know I could use a label to do this but I'd like to put them on a card as a member like my internal project members.  Is this possible?

I've tried making a pretend invite and using my email address but Trello obviously knows that email user is a member.  I tried using the 'create link' option and managed to create a user with a dummy email address like mine (...2) but I can't link them to the board because they won't get an email to confirm the account.

Any other ideas or is a label the only option?

thanks

[Devon Henderson]

Hi Louise!

Could you just create another email account, sign that account up for Trello, and then confirm the account by logging into that email?

My suggestion would be to set up a Gmail, too, so you can use the setup @Iain Dooley provided, using the + sign. That way you can use that one email for any other accounts you may create for outside organizations for your workflow.

Example:

abcbiz@gmail.com could be the email address you create, with "abcbiz" being the name of your company. Then you can use the + trick to create a unique address for each extra company you want to show in Trello. So you would create a new Trello account with:

abcbiz+othercompanyname@gmail.com, password is whatever you like

You then log into that original email (abcbiz@gmail.com) and confirm the account creation.

Let me know if that wasn't clear!

[Louise Rutland]

Thanks @Devon Henderson  that did make sense, I'm trying to avoid using personal/other email.  

Looks like it needs to be a label.

[Iain Dooley]

@Louise Rutland if you use gmail you can create aliases from any address using the "+" symbol followed by any text. For example if your email address is:

louiserutland@gmail.com

you can send email to the same address with:

louiserutland+whatever@gmail.com

This can allow you to create as many Trello members as you want, and all the welcome and other notification emails etc. will come to your account.

[Louise Rutland]

Thanks Iain but unfortunately we don't use gmail here.  :0(