Signup form with first & last name ?

[sacards.com]

Is it possible to have the sign up form with first & last name ? currently it only needs email & password , however , i have so many customers with no names that i can't use good enough for marketing .
Regards,

[mazhar]

Yes that will be an easy job. You just need to add two text boxes in the ConLib/RegisterDialog.ascx and modify the ConLib/RegisterDialog.ascx.cs file to include the code that will add the information from these newly added text boxes to the primary address of the user. This code could be something like below and place it just above the
following line in the ConLib/RegisterDialog.ascx.cs file
//REDIRECT TO APPROPRIATE PAGE
so that it would be something like

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newUser.PrimaryAddress.FirstName = "Your First Name";
newUser.PrimaryAddress.LastName = "Your Last Name";
newUser.PrimaryAddress.Save();
//REDIRECT TO APPROPRIATE PAGE
...
...

Now you can replace the "Your First Name" and "Your Last Name" info with your newly added text boxes

[industry]

Yes that will be an easy job. You just need to add two text boxes in the ConLib/RegisterDialog.ascx and modify the ConLib/RegisterDialog.ascx.cs file to include the code that will add the information from these newly added text boxes to the primary address of the user. This code could be something like below and place it just above the
following line in the ConLib/RegisterDialog.ascx.cs file
//REDIRECT TO APPROPRIATE PAGE
so that it would be something like

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newUser.PrimaryAddress.FirstName = "Your First Name";
newUser.PrimaryAddress.LastName = "Your Last Name";
newUser.PrimaryAddress.Save();
//REDIRECT TO APPROPRIATE PAGE
...
...

Now you can replace the "Your First Name" and "Your Last Name" info with your newly added text boxes

This is exactly what i need too, thanks - although i'm being dumb in that when you say "Now you can replace the "Your First Name" and "Your Last Name" info with your newly added text boxes" i dont know what i am supposed to add here?!

The page signs the user up but as i have a personalised greeting on my site it says "Welcome Your First Name"

[mazhar]

In order to require this first name and last name information from user you will need to have two text boxes on signup form, for example if they are

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<asp:TextBox ID="FirstName" runat="server" />
<asp:TextBox ID="LastName" runat="server" />

Now the update C# code will be something like

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newUser.PrimaryAddress.FirstName = FirstName.Text;
newUser.PrimaryAddress.LastName = LastName.Text;
newUser.PrimaryAddress.Save();
//REDIRECT TO APPROPRIATE PAGE
...
...

[industry]

So simple

Thanks alot for your help, very much appreciated

[mfreeze]

This code is great but I have one issue that I have been trying to figure out but have had no success thus far.

I have the following coded

EmailTemplateCollection emailTemplates = EmailTemplateDataSource.LoadForCriteria(" Name = 'Validate New User' ");
if (emailTemplates.Count > 0)
{
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("username",newUser.PrimaryAddress.Email);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("password",Password.Text);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("firstname",newUser.PrimaryAddress.FirstName);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("lastname",newUser.PrimaryAddress.LastName);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("companyname",newUser.PrimaryAddress.Company);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("address1",newUser.PrimaryAddress.Address1);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("address2",newUser.PrimaryAddress.Address2);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("city",newUser.PrimaryAddress.City);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("state",newUser.PrimaryAddress.Province);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("zip",newUser.PrimaryAddress.PostalCode);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("phone",newUser.PrimaryAddress.Phone);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("license",LicenseNo.Text);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("licensest",LicenseSt.Text);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("licenseexp",LicenseExp.Text);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("taxid",TaxID.Text);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("existingcust",ExistingCust.SelectedItem.Value);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("custfunction",CustFunction.SelectedItem.Value);
emailTemplates[0].Send();

This works just fine when sending to a static email address that is filled out in the template. However, I need to send a copy to the person registering plus whatever addresses may be in the cc and bcc fields. How to I populate the email template 'to address' with the newUser.PrimaryAddress.Email?

I tried

template.ToAddress = template.ToAddress.Replace("vendor", String.Format("{0}", vendor.Email));

but this doesn't work because template.ToAddress is not available in my form. I know there should be another way but I haven't been able to figure it out.

I just tried emailTemplates[0].ToAddress = Token.Instance.User.Email; but the email still did not go to the customer.

[mazhar]

Try following code

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//To address
template.ToAddress = newUser.PrimaryAddress.Email;

//CC List
template.CCList = "address1@yourdomain.com,address2@yourdomain.com";

//BCC List
template.BCCList = "address1@yourdomain.com,address2@yourdomain.com"; 

[mfreeze]

I tried that and got \ConLib\Custom\NewRegisterDialog.ascx.cs(123): error CS0103: The name 'template' does not exist in the current context on the line in my code where I inserted it.

I have put emailTemplates[0].ToAddress = Token.Instance.User.Email just before the send but it seems to do nothing.

[mazhar]

sorry I used template keyword instead of emailTemplates[0]. Any how go to merchant side edit your template and then remove if any thing you specified in To Address section and try again. Although I think even if there is something it should work but better give a try.

[mfreeze]

It won't let me remove the To address so right now it specifies customer. I removed the cc addresses and now have the following code but no emails are being sent other than to the address that is hardcoded in the BCC field in the template.

//Send Email
EmailTemplateCollection emailTemplates = EmailTemplateDataSource.LoadForCriteria(" Name = 'Validate New User' ");
if (emailTemplates.Count > 0)
{
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("username",newUser.PrimaryAddress.Email);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("password",Password.Text);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("firstname",newUser.PrimaryAddress.FirstName);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("lastname",newUser.PrimaryAddress.LastName);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("companyname",newUser.PrimaryAddress.Company);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("address1",newUser.PrimaryAddress.Address1);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("address2",newUser.PrimaryAddress.Address2);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("city",newUser.PrimaryAddress.City);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("state",newUser.PrimaryAddress.Province);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("zip",newUser.PrimaryAddress.PostalCode);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("phone",newUser.PrimaryAddress.Phone);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("license",LicenseNo.Text);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("licensest",LicenseSt.Text);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("licenseexp",LicenseExp.Text);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("taxid",TaxID.Text);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("existingcust",ExistingCust.SelectedItem.Value);
emailTemplates[0].Parameters.Add("custfunction",CustFunction.SelectedItem.Value);
emailTemplates[0].ToAddress = Token.Instance.User.Email;
emailTemplates[0].CCList = Token.Instance.User.Email;
emailTemplates[0].Send();
}

[mfreeze]

I got it. The format is

emailTemplates[0].ToAddress = newUser.PrimaryAddress.Email;

.

Thanks for your assistance.