Actions and pre-user-registration trigger

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I am learning Actions and am interested in the pre-user-registration trigger functionality. My end goal is to take action prior to an account getting created in Auth0.

Does this trigger fire when someone tries to login with a oAuth provider for the first time and BEFORE that user identity is saved as a user?

I am not grokking the documentation on what actions and when the trigger occurs.

Thank you!

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From this documentation, it looks like the action is triggered before the user profile is entered into a database or passwordless connection.

This would not apply to social or enterprise connections.

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Hi @josiah_devizia,

Thank you for sharing the solution with the rest of the Community!

If you encounter any further questions, please feel free to reach out.

Thank you.

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Is there an actions trigger which does fire prior to a oAuth user identity being added as an account/user?

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Here is the full list of triggers and flows for actions. I don’t think there is one that meets your criteria. Maybe @rueben.tiow can weigh in, whether this is possible or if a feature request is needed.

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Yeah I don’t understand how adding a new user identity (creating) when someone is LOGING IN in is a feature and not a bug. I seem to be the minority on this though.

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Well in the case that you are using a third party Identity Provider, Auth0 is not creating the user identity on login. They are creating a user profile in Auth0. The identity lives with the third party (social or enterprise connections).

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Thank you for the clarification. Is there a trigger or other method I can use to before this happens?

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You can probably have an action that checks if this is a new profile on their first login.
I would imagine in a post-login action you could check if event.stats.logins_count is 1 (or 0, i’m not sure when it increments).

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Hi @brett2 and @josiah_devizia,

Thank you both for the responses.

Yes, this would be a great workaround! For clarity, the login count will be 1 because Enterprise or Social users gets added to Auth0 regardless of clicking the “signing up” and “logging in” buttons. Meaning, that the user will always log in both sign-up and log-in flows.

exports.onExecutePostLogin = async (event, api) => {
  if (event.stats.logins_count === 1) {
    //Your logic here
  }
};

I hope this helps!

Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

Thank you.

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