Sitecore Virtual User Login Experience Profile

Question

I need to validate user credentials from external service, therefore I'm using the VirtualUser authentication.

BuildVirtualUser, checking for the roles to set to him, saving the user Profile and then login with that name.

I'm facing a problem, that everyday that i login, with the same credentials Sitecore creates a new user in Experience Profile.
What i need to change in my code to assure that, with virtual user login, Sitecore gets the old experience profile of the user?

I was thinking in creating the user in sitecore with same generic password. Instead of using the virtual user, and authenticate directly with sitecore. Is that correct?

Here's my code:

Sitecore.Security.Accounts.User user = Sitecore.Security.Authentication.AuthenticationManager.BuildVirtualUser(sitecoreUser, true);
string roleName = @"newRole\User";
Sitecore.Security.Accounts.Role demoRole = Sitecore.Security.Accounts.Role.FromName(roleName);

if (Sitecore.Security.Accounts.Role.Exists(roleName) && !demoRole.IsMember(user, true, false))
{
    user.Roles.Add(Sitecore.Security.Accounts.Role.FromName(roleName));
}

user.Profile.Name = name;
user.Profile.Email = email;
user.Profile.FullName = fullname;

user.Profile.Save();
Sitecore.Security.Authentication.AuthenticationManager.Login(user.Name);

Tracker.Initialize();

Vlad Iobagiu Vlad Iobagiu · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-23T16:21:12

Code looks fine, but you miss one important thing: to identify your user/contact.

You need to add next line of code:

  Tracker.Current.Session.Identify(email);

Please check next link to find more information about how to identify contacts:

https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/setting_up__maintaining/xdb/contacts/identifying_contacts

Sitecore Virtual User Login Experience Profile

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