If you have tried to create a new myAdventist Password account and are receiving an error "Unable to create profile", the email address/account is already in use. This means it has already been set-up within myAdventist.
Option 1 - Recover My Profile for that email address/account.
- If you have a Password account already set-up, follow the instructions to How to recover my profile in MyAdventist
- If your account is a Staff account (usually 'name@adventist.org'), return to myadventist.org and click Staff to login this way; contact your local Site IT for assistance if you need a password reset.
- If you use a Federated Login (Microsoft, Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook), return to myadventist.org and click the Microsoft/Gmail/Yahoo/Facebook button to login this way; follow their password reset instructions if you need to reset your password.
Option 2 - create a new email account (e.g. with Gmail/Hotmail) then use it for a Password account in myAdventist
Create an email account with a free email service (e.g. gmail.com, hotmail.com, yahoo.com.au).
You may consider creating an email account with a free email service (e.g. gmail or hotmail), and then that account (e.g. gmail account) to your myAdventist profile, see Google login for MyAdventist
Steps below:
- Browse https://myadventist.org. You will be directed to the login page. Click New Profile
- On the New Profile page, click the New Password Account option just below Staff Account then click Password
- Enter your name and email address with the +myadventist before the @ sign.
- You will then receive a notification email from noreply@adventist.org.au. Click the Set My Password link
- Set password
- You should now be able to login using the Password login option.
Note: If your reason to do this is because your email address is no longer supported by your previous login provider, contact servicedesk@adventist.org.au and request that your previous account be merged with the newly created profile.
Understanding the +MyAdventist
The + has a very useful meaning for only Gmail's email service, as the characters after it are ignored
ie, Email+myadventist@gmail.com and Email@gmail.com are treated as the same email address
As the +myadventist part of the email address is ignored by Gmail.