REST API - setting a user's JoinDate or LastLogin date?

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wolbrink Posted: Fri, Apr 11 2008 11:48 AM

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I'm migrating users from an older forum system.  I'd like to preserve "First Login" and "Last Login" from my old forums.  My code looks something like this:

          MembershipService := MembershipService.Create('http://localhost/cs/', 'admin', 'asdfadsf')
          // create user
          usr := User.Create;
          usr.Username := UserTableName.AsString;
          usr.Password := Guid.NewGuid.ToString;
          usr.PrivateEmail := 'no.email-' + UserTableEmail.AsString
          usr.JoinDate := Nullable<System.DateTime>.Create(UserTableFirstLogin.AsDateTime);
          usr := MembershipService.AddUser(usr);
          // update user (Settings and Status now exist)
          usr.Settings.EnableEmail := False;
          usr.Status.LastLogin := UserTableLastLogin.AsDateTime;
          MembershipService.UpdateUser(usr);

The AddUser and UpdateUser don't return any error messages, and they appear to work with other settings.  But JoinDate and LostLogin seem to be ignored.  When I edit the newly created user's profile, I see:

The dates I provided were not this.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Troy

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DanBartels replied on Tue, Apr 15 2008 2:04 PM

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 Those dates are not settable via rest, their values are set internally as part of the membership system.

Dan

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dragonar replied on Thu, Aug 14 2008 11:49 AM

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Dan,

I'm in the same situation too and need to preserve these dates.

Could I first create the users and then update their join and login dates in the backend database?

Thanks,

dr

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jeffesp replied on Thu, Aug 14 2008 12:13 PM

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What I did when I needed to do this was save the dates as extended attributes on the user.  Then I used the SQL function here http://code.communityserver.org/?path=CS+Tree\SampleCode\SQL\FetchExtendendAttributeValue.sql and pulled the values back out in an UPDATE query for the user.

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DanBartels replied on Thu, Aug 14 2008 1:12 PM

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Yep, those are just dates in the SQL ASPNet_Membership tables you would have to update them directly in the database.

Dan