Rule to create user on webform submission by anonymous user

Question

I'm trying to create a user with rules on webform submission by anonymous user, as the title says. I set my event (After a webform has been submitted), set my conditions and set my actions. Create a new entity of user whose name will be [data:name-value] and e-mail address [data:email-value] as seen below . But I get Unable to evaluate action entity_create. However, I know [data:name-value] works it prints when I show it on the screen. User creation also works because a user is created when I enter fixed values. What could I be missing?

PS: I could roll my own module for this small task, but why bother when I can do it with rules?

Answer 1

It looks like your issue is about what is described in "Create entity fails when the user is anonymous" (which is an open Rules issue, current status = RTBC).

That issue also contains a patch (attached to comment #4 of that issue), which might help as a (temporary?) work around.

Note: another way to get it to work, appears to be to use the token [data:email-value-raw], as suggested in a comment to this answer (credits: olisb).