I’m trying to sign in to this forum on my work PC… but I get this pop-up with auto-filled fields.
It won’t let me put change the email.
How do I log in using my personal account on my work pc?
EDIT: I have just managed it on the edge browser but the image is taken from Chrome (preferred browser).
Your Autodesk authentication is the sign in is used for ALL web based Autodesk tools concurrently. So if you use your professional email as your ID for any web tools (ACC, BIM360, web rendering, the Autodesk Forum, etc.), or you have authenticated with a desktop product that leverages your default web browser for sign in (as may be the case with Revit in some situations). In some cases you can use an incognito browser and authenticate as the other ID on each opening of the page, but usually I recommend using another browser (i.e. Edge) to keep the sign in for the personal ID consistent.
Are you saying I can’t actually log in on that browser without using incognito mode?
I really, really dislike this.
I have to manage multiple logins because i don’t want my full name visible on the forums, but autodesk refuses to add a simple forum username. It’s been asked for for years and years. It’s not hard to add a username or alias feature.
Not without logging out of all your other stuff, often including your desktop software.
Is it because your real name is Tarquin Silverspoon-Wigglebottom the Third?
Urgh… Annoying!!
Thanks for confirming tho. Good to know I’m not just being stupid for not working out how to do it 
I did try logging out (just on Chrome) and that didn’t work. 
I do to. But even with the requirement of an Autodesk ID we have to ban 2x spammers a week at the moment. This is the lesser of two evils unfortunately.
The Dynamo forum allows this - just edit your profile.
If it’s the Autodesk forums you’re talking to the wrong group. I can’t speak to specifics, but I can confirm that adding any field into an identity is a nightmare. Remember that the forum ID is your Autodesk ID which means you have contracts, service permissions, and 100’s of other items to deal with; a change for the forum is a change for all the rest of the connected stuff, and interconnected systems break in ways which aren’t entirely understood until you propagate it across the system…
SSO might make that nearly impossible, as it controls stuff across the entire ecosystem.
But you can log in on home PC or on PC with no autodesk stuff…
So how’s it slow the spammers? Surely those with REAL Autodesk accounts are people you know/ can track?
#Confused
You have to set up an Autodesk ID to log in, so there is Autodesk stuff even if you don’t see it. Your org is using SSO which makes it a requirement to periodically validate you are you before access is granted.
By requiring they sign up for an Autodesk ID first, which has a larger network of controls on access and validation. It’s not impossible to circumvent, but this means that IP ranges and such for the worst offenders don’t see the light of the forum.
Yes, and in some cases we do. But it’s time consuming and usually not worth the effort as when I have checked the data is tied to a user who signed up with a free email AGES ago and didn’t sign in again until ages later (leading me to think that the account was hijacked).
I don’t see a way to change the username on this forum. Am i missing something?
I’ll DM you as my view includes some admin stuff that likely shouldn’t be out there.
