Create user programmatically

Posted by Community Admin on 13-Jan-2011 00:00

Hey all,

I am trying to figure out how to add a user programmatically in sitefinity 4. At the moment, I have a user control with a asp:CreateUserWizard on it. Anyone who comes to the site can register. And hence, I've named the user control 'RegisterUserControl'.

When creating the user, I have some code from an existing web application that would check if a specific role is not there, create if needed, and add the new user to the role.

Here is the code I have so far:

protected void CreateUserWizard_CreatingUser(object sender, LoginCancelEventArgs e)

TextBox firstNameTextbox = (TextBox)CreateUserWizardStep1.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("FirstNameTextBox");

TextBox lastNameTextbox = (TextBox)CreateUserWizardStep1.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("LastNameTextBox");

TextBox emailTextbox = (TextBox)CreateUserWizardStep1.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("UserName");

if (Membership.GetUser(emailTextbox) == null)

string memberRole = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["member_role"].ToString();

CreateUserWizard cuw = (CreateUserWizard)sender;

cuw.Email = cuw.UserName;

if (!Roles.RoleExists(memberRole))

Roles.CreateRole(memberRole);

if (!Roles.IsUserInRole(cuw.UserName, memberRole))

Roles.AddUserToRole(cuw.UserName, memberRole);

On 'if (!Roles.RoleExists(memberRole))' I get:
ProviderException was unhandled by user code.
The Role Manager feature has not been enabled.

I had created a previous thread about 'Role Manager feature has not been enabled?'. Here is the link.
Now, in that case, I was able to get around the ProviderException by logging in as an admin user; however, in this case, I want the register page to be wide open so any one whom would come to the site can register.

How do I change settings in sitefinity or how do I enable the role manager feature?

Thanks,

Posted by Community Admin on 13-Jan-2011 00:00

Hi Doug,

You have to use RoleManager methods like RoleExists

if (roleManager.RoleExists(role.Name))

Greetings,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 13-Jan-2011 00:00

Thanks

Posted by Community Admin on 13-Jan-2011 00:00

I am now using roleManager to check if a particular role exists and what not. I also have moved some code around. Here is how it looks now:

protected void CreateUserWizard_CreatingUser(object sender, LoginCancelEventArgs e)

TextBox emailTextbox = (TextBox)CreateUserWizardStep1.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("UserName");

if (Membership.GetUser(emailTextbox.Text) == null)

CreateUserWizard cuw = (CreateUserWizard)sender;

cuw.Email = cuw.UserName;

protected void CreateUserWizard_CreatedUser(object sender, EventArgs e)

string userName = ((TextBox)CreateUserWizardStep1.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("UserName")).Text;

User user = (User)Membership.GetUser(userName);

if (user != null)

string memberRole = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["member_role"].ToString();

var roleManager = RoleManager.GetManager();

if (!roleManager.RoleExists(memberRole))

roleManager.CreateRole(memberRole);

Role role = roleManager.GetRole(memberRole);

if (!roleManager.IsUserInRole(user.Id, memberRole))

roleManager.AddUserToRole(user, role);

At the moment, the one problem I'm having is that I get an Exception message stating that 'You are not authorized to 'Manage Users' ('Backend'). I am using a create user wizard to allow a person who comes to the site to be able to register.

How do I change this to allow a new user to the site to be able to register? Do I do this in permissions somewhere?

Posted by Community Admin on 13-Jan-2011 00:00

I found manage roles and manage users in permissions and set to 'Everyone'. I think this solves it.

Posted by Community Admin on 13-Jan-2011 00:00

Actually that didn't seem to fix it.

I went to Administration > Permissions and then changed Manage Users & Manage Roles under global permissions to 'Everyone' and I still get that 'You are not authorized to Manage Users ('Backend').

Any thoughts?

Posted by Community Admin on 14-Jan-2011 00:00

Anyone got any ideas?

Posted by Community Admin on 14-Jan-2011 00:00

I've found this post.

Posted by Community Admin on 14-Jan-2011 00:00

I found new issue with adding a user programmatically. First through, in the CreatingUser delegate method, I added this line of code.

UserManager.GetManager().Provider.SuppressSecurityChecks = true;

So, including that line of code, I was able to create a user programmatically; however, the user doesn't get added to the role that I have specified. I went ahead and debugged and in CreatedUser delegate method, this code:

Role role = roleManager.GetRole(memberRole);

if (!roleManager.IsUserInRole(user.Id, memberRole))

roleManager.AddUserToRole(user, role);

Is the 'SuppressSecurityChecks' causing problems?

This is what the full code looks like now:

protected void CreateUserWizard_CreatingUser(object sender, LoginCancelEventArgs e)

UserManager.GetManager().Provider.SuppressSecurityChecks = true;

TextBox emailTextbox = (TextBox)CreateUserWizardStep1.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("UserName");

if (Membership.GetUser(emailTextbox.Text) == null)

CreateUserWizard cuw = (CreateUserWizard)sender;

cuw.Email = cuw.UserName;

protected void CreateUserWizard_CreatedUser(object sender, EventArgs e)

string userName = ((TextBox)CreateUserWizardStep1.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("UserName")).Text;

User user = (User)Membership.GetUser(userName);

if (user != null)

string memberRole = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["member_role"].ToString();

var roleManager = RoleManager.GetManager();

if (!roleManager.RoleExists(memberRole))

roleManager.CreateRole(memberRole);

Role role = roleManager.GetRole(memberRole);

if (!roleManager.IsUserInRole(user.Id, memberRole))

roleManager.AddUserToRole(user, role);

Posted by Community Admin on 17-Jan-2011 00:00

Hello Doug,

Try calling RoleManager.SaveChages() after you assign a user to a role

I prepared a small sample which works fine with the official release.

var userManager = UserManager.GetManager();

var user = userManager.GetUsers().Where(u => u.UserName == "test1").SingleOrDefault();

var manager = RoleManager.GetManager("AppRoles");

var role = manager.GetRoles().Where(r => r.Name == "Administrators").SingleOrDefault();

manager.AddUserToRole(user, role);

manager.SaveChanges();

Regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
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Posted by Community Admin on 18-Jan-2011 00:00

What about custom roles not the ones provided?

I've created several custom roles and can't seem to add users to those roles.

Posted by Community Admin on 18-Jan-2011 00:00

Hi Doug,

The custom roles you created are part of the Default provider.

Greetings,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 18-Jan-2011 00:00

Do you just use an empty parenthesis with the role manager.

RoleManager.GetManager();

Do you do this to get all the custom roles?

Posted by Community Admin on 18-Jan-2011 00:00

Hello Doug,

GetManager() gets a manger instance for the default data provider which should contain your custom roles.

Regards,
Ivan Dimitrov
the Telerik team

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Posted by Community Admin on 18-Jan-2011 00:00

Got it to work. Forgot to call save changes method on role manager.

// forgot to call savechanges

roleManager.SaveChanges();

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