Linking with organisational e-mail

If a university who introduces linking with organisational e-mail has used edu-ID or AAI before, special precautions have to be taken in order to maintain backwards compatibility of the user accounts. The attributes for a user, which are fetched via the Attribute Provider API (AP-API) must contain the identifier swissEduPersonUniqueID for all users with an existing account.

Example of a linking with organisational e-mail

In the example below an affiliation to the Organization UniDemo is created by adding an email address matching *@unidemo.ch to the edu-ID account.

  1. go to https://eduid.ch
  2. in the section Profile go to E-Mail addresses > manage E-Mail addresses
  3. add an organisational e-mail address i.e. alex.taylor@unidemo.ch and confirm with the code sent to that address

If the mail-domain has been registered for linking with organisational e-mail, and the email was found in the directory of the organisation, an affiliation is created within seconds.