Most of the member api is marked as outdated but can be used. So just try to use the functions you need and see if they work.

Here's a sample on how you create a new user and set a membergroup to him:

//Member Type

            MemberType umbJobMemberType = MemberType.GetByAlias("TMMember");

            //Umbraco Admin User (The Umbraco back office username who will create the member via the API)

            User umbUser = new User("dbrendel");

            //Model valid let's create the member

            try

            {

                Member createMember = Member.MakeNew(model.Name, model.EmailAddress, model.EmailAddress, umbJobMemberType, umbUser);

                //Set password on the newly created member

                createMember.Password = model.Password;

                //Set the verified email to false

                createMember.getProperty("hasVerifiedEmail").Value = false;

//Set the profile URL to be the member ID, so they have a unqie profile ID, until they go to set it

                createMember.getProperty("profileURL").Value = createMember.Id;

                createMember.AddGroup(MemberGroup.GetByName("TMGroup").Id);

                //Save the changes

                createMember.Save();

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                //EG: Duplicate email address - already exists

                throw;

            }

The example comes from an Mvc controller, so the model.Property is just an object with the infos provided by the user.

To set up the webservice in Umbraco i would recommend using UmbracoApiController if you are on Umbraco 6.1.x. But i think there should be more than one way to get somethink like a webservice up and running.

Hi David,

thanks for the reply. I am not too familiar with MVC and am using web forms.

Does v6 use the ASP.NET membership provider? Is there any example code for creating members and assigning them to Umbraco MemberGroup's  using this?

thanks.

Hello,

The member api will get a new version, but the old api is still the best thing for now. The obsolete attributes have even been removed again in the latest version of Umbraco: https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/commit/7c6aee17e90d4b59a29cbcabf915475510c072c7

New member api: http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-1659

So this documentation is still good: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/api-cheatsheet/working-with-members

Jeroen

Thanks Jeroen.

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