Hi,

Can't offer advice on your problem, but why aren't you using the asp.net controls for recovering passwords? It's dead drop easy, no need for any additional code. Also, be sure that password recovering is not possible when passwordFormat="Hashed"!!

Cheers,

/Dirk

Because im a designer, not a devolper :)

And because the membercontrols is a repository package, and i therefore thought it would be "Best practice" to use this.

I've now changed the following in the web config:

  <add name="UmbracoMembershipProvider" type="umbraco.providers.members.UmbracoMembershipProvider" enablePasswordRetrieval="true" enablePasswordReset="false" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" defaultMemberTypeAlias="Another Type" passwordFormat="Clear" />

But i still dont get the info in the mail.

Cool, it works, thanks

Is it possible to rertrive the infor using the memebers email instead of username? Mu members always forget their username, but can always remember their email

Yes, that's possible but will require some coding from your part.

PasswordRecovery has a bunch of events that fire when using it, one of those is the VerifyingUser event which is triggered just before the user name is sent to the Membership provider. In your case, you'll have to perform an additional lookup on the member (find username from email) and send that info instead of e-mail (as the membership provider will only look at the username provided through the control)

And, you'll have to change the layout slightly (UserNameTemplate)

I don't have any example here atm (have already done exactly the same thing in another project) but can dig that up for you tonight. Send me a mail at dirk at netaddicts dot be if you want it.

Cheers,

/Dirk

@Claus: I've sent you an e-mail with details on how to retrieve passwords when users are only entering their email address instead of username.

Cheers,

/Dirk

Hi Dirk,

Could you post that here as well? It would be quite handy for others :)

Cheers

SP

Ok SImon, I'll see if I can digg up the code today.

Cheers,

/Dirk

Hi Dirk,

Did u "digg up the code" ? - I need to figure it out as well :)

Password retrieval from the members section (only email + password are used, no name or anything ;)

/Chief

Ha Chief

My bad, sorry for late reply, was a bit forgotten about it! Ok, here's mail content I've sent to Claus a few weeks ago...

I'm not sure whether you're actually using user controls (and macro) or using the asp.net controls directly from template, but I'll explain using the second method:

Onto your template, drop (well, copy'n'paste) a asp.net PasswordRecovery control

<asp:PasswordRecovery ID="UsernameRecovery" runat="server" MailDefinition-BodyFileName="RecoverUsername.txt">
        <UserNameTemplate>
            <fieldset>
                <legend>Recover username</legend>
                <p>
                    <asp:Literal ID="FailureText" runat="server" EnableViewState="False"></asp:Literal>
                    <asp:ValidationSummary ID="UsernameRecoveryValidationSummary" runat="server" DisplayMode="BulletList"
                        ValidationGroup="UsernameRecovery" />
                </p>
                <p>
                    <label id="UserNameLabel" for="UserName">
                        Email:</label>
                    <asp:TextBox ID="UserName" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
                    <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="UserNameRequired" runat="server" ControlToValidate="UserName"
                        ErrorMessage="*" ToolTip="User Name is required." ValidationGroup="UsernameRecovery">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
                </p>
                <p>
                    <asp:Button ID="SubmitButton" runat="server" CommandName="Submit" Text="Submit" ValidationGroup="UsernameRecovery" />
                </p>
            </fieldset>
        </UserNameTemplate>
        <SuccessTemplate>Your username has been sent to you.</SuccessTemplate>
    </asp:PasswordRecovery>

I'm pretty sure you know now how to use MailDefinition-BodyFileName property. 

Key here is that we'll ask the user to enter his email address (mind the 'Email:' value for the 'UserNameLabel' label - don't change the names of the fields, they're reserved words!!), we'll subscribe to an event that is fired just before that info is sent to the membership provider (which will take care of the lookup of the password based on username) and when that event is fired, we'll substitute the value (e-mail address entered in 'UserName' textbox) with the username that corresponds to that email address (using the umbraco api). Membership provider is happy cause it'll receivee a username, we're happy because our users can still enter e-mail addresses.

If I'm really talking rubbish or would like some more clarification, feel free to ask!

Here's the code snippet for the events subscribing and handling.

<script runat="server">
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
    UsernameRecovery.VerifyingUser += new LoginCancelEventHandler(PasswordRecovery_VerifyingUser);
}

protected void PasswordRecovery_VerifyingUser(object sender, LoginCancelEventArgs e) {
    umbraco.cms.businesslogic.member.Member currentMember = Member.GetMemberFromEmail(UsernameRecovery.UserName);

    if (currentMember != null && currentMember.Id > 0) {
        UsernameRecovery.UserName = currentMember.LoginName;
    } else {
        e.Cancel = true;
    }
}
</script>

Hmm.. I can't quite get this to work. The macro displays OK but it doesn't recognise a valid email address. I always get "We were unable to access your information. Please try again." even though the email address is a member's. No email is sent (I added the mailDefinition info):

<MailDefinition BodyFileName="~/usercontrols/RecoverUsername.txt" From="[email protected]" Subject="Your account information"  />

This is the Username.txt file:

Your user name is: <%UserName%>
Your password is: <%Password%>

These fields are automatically filled in, right?

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