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• Haddicus

  Posted on Jan 26, 2010 (permalink)

  I am the President of Iota Sigma Tau, Kaplan University's IT honor society and am trying to put my head around how we can do a mass enroll of members into sitefinitity and provide them with a starting password easily. Has anyone implemented any sort of mass enrollment that would allow us to create membership for individuals and temporary passwords and upon initial login ask for a new password. The only reference I could find in relation was a post about single sign on, but that's not really what we want to implement. I appriciate any feedback.
  
  Thanks!
  
  -SH
  

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• Answer Radoslav Georgiev Radoslav Georgiev

  Posted on Jan 26, 2010 (permalink)

  Hello Sean Haddy,
  
  Thank  you for using our services.
  
  You can create a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file which will contain your user information such as user names, profile information, e-mail, etc .Attached is a sample tool that reads values from this file and creates new users. What the tool does is that it reads lines from a file where users and profile information are entered as coma separated values (CSV file). Each line represents the following information:
  
  Username, Password, Email, Role
  
  This tool can be easily extended to read additional data and add it to user's profile for example. If for example you wish to add user's profile you just have to add some code to the ~/Tools/ImportUsersTool/ImportUsersTool.ascx.cs:
  
  

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  ...

  string userRole = columns[3].Trim();      

  string userAddress = columns[4].ToString();

  MembershipUser newUser = userManager.CreateUser(userName, userPassword, userEmail);

     if (newUser != null)

     {

        ProfileBase profile = ProfileBase.Create(newUser.UserName);

        profile.SetPropertyValue("FirstName", newUser.UserName);

        profile.SetPropertyValue("Address",userAddress);

  ...

  
  Attached is the custom tool, and a sample CSV file. To use it just add the contents of the archive to the root directory of your website and restart the website. You can use the same pattern to add additional values if you wish. When you are creating the users you can set a profile property to check whether they should change password. First extend the profile properties in web.config:
  

  <profile defaultProvider="Sitefinity">

      <providers>

          <clear/>

          <add name="Sitefinity" connectionStringName="DefaultConnection" applicationName="/" type="Telerik.DataAccess.AspnetProviders.TelerikProfileProvider, Telerik.DataAccess"/>

      </providers>

      <properties>

          <add name="FirstName"/>

          <add name="LastName"/>

          <add name="Position"/>

          <add name="Photo_Hidden"/>

              <add name="ChangePassword"/>

          <add name="Photo" defaultValue="~/Sitefinity/Common/Images/defaultavatar.gif"/>

          <group name="InstantMessenger">

              <add name="IM_Type"/>

              <add name="IM_Value"/>

          </group>

          <group name="Phone">

              <add name="Value"/>

              <add name="Type"/>

          </group>

      </properties>

  </profile>

  
  Then just add this when creating user profiles:
  

  if (newUser != null)

  {

      ProfileBase profile = ProfileBase.Create(newUser.UserName);

      profile.SetPropertyValue("FirstName", newUser.UserName);

      profile.SetPropertyValue("ChangePassword", true);

      //set other profile date using the ProfileBase.SetPropertyValue(string PropertyName,string PropertyValue) as in above line

      if (!Roles.RoleExists(userRole))

          Roles.CreateRole(userRole);

      userManager.AddUserToRole(newUser.UserName, userRole);

      profile.Save();

  }

  
  Then you can edit the log-in control (~/Sitefinity/UserControls/Login/LoginControl.ascx.cs) to check if the password should be changed and if yes, redirect to a page with change password control:
  

  void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

  {

      //subscribe to the logged in event of the control

      this.Login1.LoggedIn += new EventHandler(Login1_LoggedIn);

  }

  void Login1_LoggedIn(object sender, EventArgs e)

  {

    ProfileBase profile = ProfileBase.Create(this.Login1.UserName);

    bool changePassword = profile.GetPropertyValue("ChangePassword") as bool;

    if (client)

    {

        //redirect to change password page

    }else //redirect to another poage     

  }

  
  Then after the password has been changed do not forget to set the proper value to the user profile.
  
  Greetings,
  Radoslav Georgiev
  the Telerik team

  
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  Attached files

  • importuserstool.zip

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• Allen

  Posted on Nov 18, 2011 (permalink)

  In 4.2, I am getting errors for the following namespaces:
  
  using Telerik.CMS.Web.UI;
  using Telerik.Security;
  using Telerik.DataAccess.AspnetProviders;
  

  
  Also, this seems to be an issue:
  <sfMsg:MessageControl ID="msgStatus" runat="server"></sfMsg:MessageControl>
  

  (even with changing the namespace to Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI)
  
  What are the 4.2 equivalents or could you reupload a version compatible with 4.2+?

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• Radoslav Georgiev Radoslav Georgiev

  Posted on Nov 22, 2011 (permalink)

  Hi Allen,
  
  If you have installed the Sitefinity 4.3 SDK you can take a look at some sample utility methods we have created. Namely look at the Content/Common/

  Telerik.Sitefinity.Samples.Common project which installs with the SDK. It has the bellow sample method for creating users and roles:
  
  

  public static void CreateUsersAndRoles()

  {

      var userManager = UserManager.GetManager();

   

      if (!userManager.UserExists("admin"))

      {

          userManager.Provider.SuppressSecurityChecks = true;

          MembershipCreateStatus status;

          var user = userManager.CreateUser("admin", "password", "admin@sample.com", "test", "yes", true, null, out status);

          if (status != MembershipCreateStatus.Success)

          {

              throw new InvalidOperationException("User cannot be created" + status.ToString());

          }

          userManager.SaveChanges();

          userManager.Provider.SuppressSecurityChecks = false;

   

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

          roleManager.Provider.SuppressSecurityChecks = true;

          Guid id;

          foreach (var a in Config.Get<SecurityConfig>().ApplicationRoles.Keys)

          {

              var info = Config.Get<SecurityConfig>().ApplicationRoles[a];

              id = info.Id;

              if (roleManager.GetRoles().Where(r => r.Id == id).FirstOrDefault() == null)

              {

                  roleManager.CreateRole(info.Id, info.Name);

              }

          }

          roleManager.SaveChanges();

   

          var adminRole = roleManager.GetRole("Administrators");

          roleManager.AddUserToRole(user, adminRole);

          roleManager.SaveChanges();

          roleManager.Provider.SuppressSecurityChecks = false;

      }

   

      SecurityManager.AuthenticateUser(null, "admin", "password", true);

  }

  
  
  Best wishes,
  Radoslav Georgiev
  the Telerik team

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• Allen

  Posted on Dec 6, 2011 (permalink)

  I have downloaded the SDK and have part of the solution for what I need.  However, I have custom providers and custom profiles that need to be populated for my user accounts.  I can get the custom provider, but for the life of me, cannot determine what API I need to follow to get and populate the custom profile properties.  When I get the profile manager via the Telerik stack (Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.UserProfileManager.GetManager().GetUserProfiles()).  I can list out the data and see a type of Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.Model.customer, which is my customer profile, but I cannot work with it.  However, my goal isn't to get an existing profile and update it.  Instead it is to populate the profile (i.e. create it) during the process that I am creating my user accounts. Any help would be appreciated.
  

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• Radoslav Georgiev Radoslav Georgiev

  Posted on Dec 8, 2011 (permalink)

  Hi Allen,
  
  Bellow sample shows how to work with profiles. For your custom profile instead of using the type name of the built in profile you should use the name of the custom profile:
  

  profileManager.Provider.SuppressSecurityChecks = true;

             var myProfile = profileManager.GetUserProfile(myUser, (typeof(SitefinityProfile)).FullName);

             if(myProfile != null)

             {

                 var favoritesField = myProfile.GetValue<String>("Favorites");

                 myProfile.SetValue("Favorites", "Movies, Magazines");

             }

  
  The name will be something like Telerik.Sitefinity.Security.Model.ProfileName
  
  Greetings,
  Radoslav Georgiev
  the Telerik team

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