Lack of flows for Social Connections and their impact on Welcome Email

[developer12]

Hi,

I’ve found several other posts on this forum where you explain that for Social Connections, only the Post-Login flow can be used to trigger certain actions.

The problem with this severe limitation is that we cannot generate some app_metadata and send that generated data in a user’s welcome email as the e-mail is send out before the action is executed.

Is there any update on allowing social connections to also trigger Pre User Registration?
Or any other way to have some app_meta data generated AND included in the welcome mail?

Kind regards,

[tyf]

Hey there @developer12 welcome to the community!

@developer12

Is there any update on allowing social connections to also trigger Pre User Registration?

Your use case totally makes sense to me. I unfortunately do not have any update, but I do encourage you to add to this existing feedback request - The more engagement there the better:

Trigger the Pre User Registration flow for social and other non-database connection types

I’ve also hit this limitation and had to work around it. I ended up doing as @hendrik described - I have “complete user registration” login action which checks a flag in the user’s app_metadata and if the flag is missing, runs some code (in my case to assign roles and set user metadata based on a custom invitation it retrieves from an API in our systems), then sets the flag in app_metadata to prevent the same code running a second time. This works, but it feels hacky, and is vulnerable to somebo…