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Abris
Abris

Reputation: 1481

Members in backoffice

I am developing an application in Umbraco where I need to get my members from an external already existing database. I have succeeded in making a custom membership provider which I use to validate users.

What I would like to do now is to get the list of members in the external database to be visible in the members area in the backoffice. Is this possible and if so any ideas on how to accomplish it?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1023

Answers (2)

Eric Herlitz
Eric Herlitz

Reputation: 26267

Unfortunately no.

To achieve this you must build a custom member application for Umbraco.

== Edit on request ==

The member gui is explicitly built to handle Umbraco Member Objects, these object can be extended with properties of the same data types as all objects in Umbraco. This gui won't simply work with a regular asp.net membership provider since they are not compatible.

To best match this you should extend the umbraco.providers.members.UmbracoMembershipProvider class instead of the ordinary asp.net membership provider.

Now, you can make calls from the UmbracoMembershipProvider to any asp.net membership provider but this is a discussion of architecture and philosophy :)

Upvotes: 3

Digbyswift
Digbyswift

Reputation: 10400

I have had a similar requirement in a previous project. We created a scheduled task that used a secure web service to collect the users and then programmatically added them into the Umbraco backoffice. The scheduled task had to check for existing users in order to avoid duplicate entries.

Also, the passwords of the users would need to be available in plain text in order for them to be added into Umbraco. If they aren't, then you will need to create a new password for each user which may be impractical.

See here for more information on the membership api.

Upvotes: 0

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