Cannot create Drupal user, email: invalid!! (double exclamation is the error message, not my urgency)

Question

Drupal 7.72 Civi 5.24.5 Webform Civi Integration 7.5.1

I just set it up so that Drupal users are created when a webform is submitted. Using petednz's guide.

But I get the following error message Cannot create user, email: invalid!!

What would cause Cannot create user, email: invalid!! on an civicrm integrated webform? This has the same problem. I tried both suggestions there and it did not fix it for me.

I get the following 2 messages in my Drupal logs:

1. rules 08/16/2020 - 20:39 Unable to get variable civicrm_user, it is not defined
2. civicrm_entity 08/16/2020 - 20:39 Cannot create user, email invalid.

I use CiviRules to add a tag to the contact when a new contact is added from "these" Sources. Should the tag be added in a different manner? The guide was not clear on how to add the tag to the contact. I'm wondering if the Rules is firing before CiviRules gets the tag added.

Answer 1

An alternative approach now is https://civicrm.org/extensions/silent-user-registration so you only use CiviRules and don't use Drupal Rules.