Update Profile of Created User

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I've created my own version of the CreateUserWizard control that gathers up
all the information I need when a user requests an account. Once all the
data is gathered and validated, the FinishButtonClick property calls a method
that does the following:

1. Creates the user account:
Membership.CreateUser(myName, myPwd, myName, myQue, myAns, true, out
createStatus);

(I'm using the email address (myName) as the username, which is why it shows
up twice)

2. I then want to update the newly created user's profile with the
information that was entered:

Profile.UserInfo.UserEmail = UserName.Text;
Profile.UserInfo.FirstName = FirstName.Text;
Profile.UserInfo.MiddleInitial = MI.Text;

...etc.

I do not want these profiles created for anonymous users, so my web.config
file looks like this:

<anonymousIdentification enabled="false" />
<properties>
<group name="UserInfo">
<add name="FirstName" type="System.String" allowAnonymous="false" />
<add name="MiddleInitial" type="System.String"
allowAnonymous="false" />
<add name="LastName" type="System.String" allowAnonymous="false" />

...etc.
</group>
</properties>

I have tried several methods to ensure that the newly created user is logged
in, by using the Membership.ValidateUser(), the
FormsAuthentications.AuthorizeUser(), and none of them have worked. However
the MembershipUser object returned by the CreateUser method shows that that
user is currently OnLine. I always end up with the following error message
the moment I try to call the SetPropertyValue of the first profile property:

"This property cannot be set for anonymous users."

Note that I do not want the user to be able to log in yet until their
account has been approved, so once the profile info is created I would have
to log them out and set their account to Inactive.

Thanks for any and all help.
 
Hi,

Thank you for your post.

I think you can create and save the profile manually after you created the
user:

ProfileCommon p = (ProfileCommon) ProfileCommon.Create(username, true);
p.UserInfo.UserEmail = UserName.Text;
...

You can find more info here:

#How to add a Login, Roles and Profile system to an ASP.NET 2.0 app in only
24 lines of code
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/10/18/427754.aspx

Hope this helps. Please feel free to post here if anything is unclear.

Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Thanks, that seems to be the answer! One other question tho, how do I then
retrieve the profile of a user who is not logged in? I noticed that there's
a ProfileCommon.GetProfile(string username). Is it that easy?

Morgan
Web Developer
Portland, Oregon
 
Hi Morgan,

Thank you for your update.

Yes you can use the GetProfile() function to get the profile of a user.
This generated function actually has following code:

public virtual ProfileCommon GetProfile(string username) {
return ((ProfileCommon)(ProfileBase.Create(username)));
}

ProfileBase.Create() is used to create an instance of a profile for the
specified user name. It's also used when migrating anonymous users:

<%@ Application Language="VB" %>
<script runat="server">

Sub Profile_MigrateAnonymous(ByVal s As Object, _
ByVal e As ProfileMigrateEventArgs)
Dim anonProfile As ProfileCommon = _
Profile.GetProfile(e.AnonymousId)
Profile.FavoriteColor = anonProfile.FavoriteColor
End Sub

</script>


Hope this helps. Please feel free to post here if anything is unclear.


Regards,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Hi:

I am running into a problem with the ProfileCommon. I have an
administration page where the profile of any user may be updated
through a ProfileCommon instance.

However, if the administrator is logged in and tries to edit his own
information, it won't "stick." It will work if I add a condition
stating that if the user being editted is the user who is making the
edits, the Profile object should be used instead of creating a
ProfileCommon object.

Is this normal behavior and a normal workaround?

Thanks.
 
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