We have developed a very customized portal using the DNN Framework (DNN 3.2.2). We are registering users, using their email address as their username, which obviously also populates the email address field. The profile edit page is custom as we store a lot of extra details about the user.

To my horror (now correct me if I am wrong) you cannot update the username if it changes; because this is a restriction of the Membership Provider used by DNN provided by Microsoft. Now the typical scenario (which 1000's of websites implement is using your email address as your username; I honeslty don't like the separate username and email address thing anyway). Now what happens if my email address changes (which obviously requires an update of my username)? Are we just completely screwed or do we now have to delete the poor user's account and re-create, linking back all relevant data with a brand new UserID. I cannot think this is so; or am I missing something here; a fundemantal flaw maybe?

 

 

I think you have discovered the internet equivalent of a stunned silence?

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Colm Ryan Director
3rd i IT and Business Services Limited

www.actravia.com
Registration and Booking Solutions for Dotnetnuke
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IMCA Registered Management Consulting Practice. Business and IT Strategy, IT Project Management and Product Development

well.. ATM there are 2 options:

* create your own membership provider to deal with this situation

* you could change usernames making use of some home made sql statements... (or create your own module to handle the sql)

cheers,

Erik

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Erik van Ballegoij, Former DNN Corp. Employee and DNN Expert

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