Auto-login after registration

Is there a way to configure Sitefinity to automatically login a new user when they submit the form on the Registration widget?  This seems like something that would be a common practice for many sites.  I'm running Sitefinity 5.4 with claims authentication.

Hallo
This is a feature that we would also like to know.
Thanks Rich for asking this :-)

Kind regards
Henrik Stensgaard

Hello guys,

 There is currently no configuration for this, but you can implement it by inheriting the RegistrationForm control and overriding the ConfirmRegistration method. You have the user there, so you can get all the parameters you need to authenticate the user through the SecurityManager.
Here's a sample code for this:

I get the idea behind this but the main question I have it where do I actually put that code? in a custom control? in a class? Where does that go to inherit from the base registration?

I now understand what exactly I need to do with this however the user cookie is never created.

I just got the UserLoggingReason to spit back so I could see what was happening and it is saying the user or password is wrong.  

I would imagine because Authenticate user is expecting a plain text string for the password but the user.password is already encrypted.  How can I get the plain text password from here?

Hello Rick,

Achieving the desired functionality is quite easy if you override the default RegistrationForm widget, and plug in to the ConfirmRegistration method, where you have the newly created user passed as an argument. The only additional thing you will need to take into account is that the password of the user should be retrieved from the value of the textbox the user has filled in, rather than the User object.
here's a brief example of what I've explained above:

Hi,

I tried the method explained in this post. I created one .cs file and inherited RegistrationForm. But don't know why its not even calling my custom class. Any ideas?? Am I missing anything in my code or settings??

Please reply.

Thanks,
Surbhi Agarwal

Hi Surbhi,

Once you build your new class you need to register it in the Toolbox. I recommend using Thunder for that. Then you have a widget that you can drop onto a page instead of the default Registration widget.

I hope that helps.

Regards,
Randy Hodge
the Telerik team

Hi Randy,

Thanks for the reply. But, I am trying not to create the whole new registration form with all functionality. Just wanted to update the username with email address for that user. The method you mentioned invloves creating a whole new registration widget.

Is there any way by which I can do this?

Thanks,
Surbhi Agarwal

Hello Surbhi,

You have already created a whole new widget when you made a class that inherits from RegistrationForm. That's what inheritance is all about. You cannot change the actual RegistrationForm; it is compiled into an assembly and you have no source code to recompile it. So you make your own version that is exactly the same (through inheritance) except for the parts you want to behave differently. Then you must tell Sitefinity to use your class by registering it in the Toolbox and use it instead of the default RegistrationForm.

I hope this clarifies things for you.

Regards,
Randy Hodge
the Telerik team

I Implemented this solution and it works but how do change the designer display from the display a label  (from creating a new widget) to the Registration designer as shown in Boyan's video?

Thanks!

Hello,

If I understand correctly your idea, this should be your solution:

In the Custom Registration Form you override LayouthTemplatePath which should be the path to some custom .ascx template which is using RegistrationForm.cs. This should be some template which should be modified from the original one - RegistrationForm.ascx

Hope this will help.



Regards,
Ivan A. Petrov
Telerik

Ivan,

Thanks for your help, but I guess I did not explain myself clearly. 

I need to override the Designer control. My RegistrationAutoLoginDesigner.cs has the code below and I need to make into the standard widget's "RegistrationFormDesigner.cs" .