Send Email to New User when created through Umbraco interface
I am trying to do something which should be really simple but I think I'm missing something. When you create a new user through the CMS I want an email to be sent to the user's email address to notify them of their password. I'm sure this must be built in but I can't see how to do it.
Hi Ben and welcome to the world of Umbraco and here on our
No it's not something that is built in actually. At the current time I'm not aware if someone has already created a package for signups that does what you're asking. But otherwise if you have skills in ASP.NET and C# it's should be fairly easy to create some code that does this when a new member has been created.
The reason why this does not work out of the box is that Umbraco on a clean installation without starter kits etc. is COMPLETELY empty - You get a box with the bare bones functionality and then it's up to you to define content structure, templates and what should happen on certain events. (Fortunately it's easy to set up a site once and then make a package out of it so it can be reused or other sites etc.).
That was a short explanation of why this is not something you get out of the box.
If you do have the mentioned skills I think you should have a look at the "API cheatsheet" in the Wiki section on our. Here you can also find a list of events that occur in Umbraco, which you will also need to create this.
At the moment our project is on a very tight schedule so we are going to check if this is something we definitely need to implement. If we do then I'll see what I can do but we may not implement it if its not deemed as necesary
Send Email to New User when created through Umbraco interface
I am trying to do something which should be really simple but I think I'm missing something. When you create a new user through the CMS I want an email to be sent to the user's email address to notify them of their password. I'm sure this must be built in but I can't see how to do it.
Anyone know?
Hi Ben and welcome to the world of Umbraco and here on our
No it's not something that is built in actually. At the current time I'm not aware if someone has already created a package for signups that does what you're asking. But otherwise if you have skills in ASP.NET and C# it's should be fairly easy to create some code that does this when a new member has been created.
The reason why this does not work out of the box is that Umbraco on a clean installation without starter kits etc. is COMPLETELY empty - You get a box with the bare bones functionality and then it's up to you to define content structure, templates and what should happen on certain events. (Fortunately it's easy to set up a site once and then make a package out of it so it can be reused or other sites etc.).
That was a short explanation of why this is not something you get out of the box.
If you do have the mentioned skills I think you should have a look at the "API cheatsheet" in the Wiki section on our. Here you can also find a list of events that occur in Umbraco, which you will also need to create this.
Hope this helps.
/Jan
Thanks for the reply, I am a c# developer so will check out the cheat sheet as you mention.
Hi Ben
Good to hear that.
Maybe it could be an idea to make a package with this functionality? :)
/Jan
At the moment our project is on a very tight schedule so we are going to check if this is something we definitely need to implement. If we do then I'll see what I can do but we may not implement it if its not deemed as necesary
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