Hi all,

I'm creating a controller to help uploading a spreadsheet ( which the user would convert into a .txt file) of members into Umbraco, however I'm not quite sure where to check if the user already exists, and if so how to just update the information instead of creating a new member.

Here's my code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Core;
using Umbraco.Core.Models;
using Umbraco.Core.Services;
using System.IO;

namespace UmbracoMemberImport.Controllers
{
public class MemberSurfaceController :         
Umbraco.Web.Mvc.SurfaceController
{
    public ActionResult ImportMembers()
    {
        string _line = "";
        using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Imports/members.txt")))
        {
            do
            {
                // Read a line from the csv file
                _line = sr.ReadLine();

                // Check if the line is not empty
                if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(_line))
                {
                    // Split the line using the ; delimiter
                    string[] _splits = _line.Split(',');

                    if (_splits.Length == 8)
                    {
                        // Create a new member instance
                        IMember member = ApplicationContext.Current.Services.MemberService.CreateMember(
                            _splits[3],     // Username
                            _splits[2],     // Email
                            _splits[6],     // Display name
                            "member"    // Member type
                        );

                        // Member is approved to login
                        member.IsApproved = true;

                        // Check is the branch content picker property exists and set the value
                        //if (member.HasProperty("branch"))
                        //    member.SetValue("branch", _splits[4]);

                        // Check is the sales person content picker property exists and set the value
                        //if (member.HasProperty("salesPerson") && !String.IsNullOrEmpty(_splits[5]))
                        //    member.SetValue("salesPerson", _splits[5]);

                        // Check is the code property exists and set the value
                        if (member.HasProperty("code"))
                            member.SetValue("code", _splits[0]);

                        // Check is the title property exists and set the value
                        if (member.HasProperty("title"))
                            member.SetValue("title", _splits[1]);

                        try
                        {

                            // Save the member
                            ApplicationContext.Current.Services.MemberService.Save(member);

                            // Save the password of the member
                            ApplicationContext.Current.Services.MemberService.SavePassword(member, _splits[7]);

                            // Assign the correct role
                            ApplicationContext.Current.Services.MemberService.AssignRole(member.Id, "Member");

                        }
                        catch { }
                    }
                }
            } while (!sr.EndOfStream);

        }

        return null;

    }
}
}

Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

Thanks,

David