How to stop new Tuakiri-member users from clicking “Login via ORCID”

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How to stop new Tuakiri-member users from clicking “Login via ORCID”

The problem: Hub-naïve users try to log in with their ORCID iD.

Logging into the Hub can be a little confusing for naïve users.  In that first visit to the Hub, they are likely to gravitate to the “Login via ORCID” option, sign into their ORCID record and give the Hub permission to read their ORCID iD, only for them to then be blocked because:

Warning! The account with ORCID iD XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX is not known in the Hub. Try again when you've linked your ORCID iD with an organisation through either a Tuakiri-mediated log in, or from an organisation's email invitation

That’s a waste of their time and effort, and obviously not a great first impression to have of the Hub.

A solution: Bypass the “Login” options entirely and send your users directly to the Tuakiri Directory.

Each of the login paths simply directs the user to one of two Hub urls, e.g., “Login via Tuakiri” points to https://orcidhub.org.nz/Tuakiri/login.  If you have internal pages explaining or encouraging ORCID uptake, by sending them to this Tuakiri login, i.e., rather than the Hub’s homepage, you’ll both save them ~three clicks, and ensure that they’re taking the correct authentication path.

An example of how to do this is the following html to produce a link that will drop users directly in the Tuakiri Directory service.

<a href="https://orcidhub.org.nz/Tuakiri/login"><img id="nzorcidhub-logo" src="https://orcidhub.org.nz/static/images/logo.png" width="16" height="16" alt="NZ ORCID Hub logo"/>Login to the NZ ORCID Hub to authenticate your ORCID iD with us</a>

Similar to: 

 Login to the NZ ORCID Hub to authenticate your ORCID iD with us

Alternatively, the following produces a clickable button which does the same thing:

<form style="display: inline" action="https://orcidhub.org.nz/Tuakiri/login" method="get"><button><img id="orcid-id-logo" src="https://orcidhub.org.nz/static/images/logo.png" width='16' height='16' alt="NZ ORCID Hub logo"/>Login to the NZ ORCID Hub to authenticate your ORCID iD with us</button></form>

Similar to: 

Note while it’s also possible to direct users to the ORCID login, this is only useful as a shortcut for repeat visitors.

Finally, what can we do better?

Taking another look at what the new Hub user will see, we can (and should) have some text on the home page for those who land there and are completely lost, i.e.,

“To use the Hub, you need to log in with an known identity: if you come from any NZ University or Crown Research Institute (with the exception of GNS), please “Login via Tuakiri”; if you’ve already linked your ORCID iD with the Hub, you can “Login via ORCID”; otherwise, you’ll need an email invitation from your organisation before the Hub will know who you are.”

This is a very minor change and will be up in the next sprint.

Ngā mihi,

Jason.