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Pass custom options to UniversalLogin (filled-in referal field)

#1

Hi, we are trying to pass arbitrary values to Universal Login to fill a referral field and thus allow users to share referral links to our site.

The only param that fits the bill is “mode”, but we feel is a bit hacky to use that field for other purpose.

this.auth0.authorize({
appState: someParams, //ignored
language: language,
initialScreen: ‘signUp’,
translations: translations,
rememberLastLogin: true,

})

I’ve been looking to older posts and people talk about appState field, but we find that is ignored in UniversalLogin Login hosted page.

Are we missing something?

Thanks

#2

You can use authParamsMap like this:


    webAuth.authorize({
      authParamsMap: {'referrerId': 'abc123'}
    });

and refer to it via config.extraParam.referrerId in the Universal Login Page (adding it as hidden additional field value) , or via context.request.query.auth_params_map.referrer_id in a Rule. The latter probably makes more sense.
You can then store the referrerId in the user’s metadata via a rule.

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#3

Yup, that did it thanks, used a rule.

For future readers:

  • You can remove “appState” from the previous snippet

  • referrerId will show in rules as:

context.request.query.auth_params_map.referrer_id

@mathiasconradt please add this to the documentation because i was not able to find it and there are a lot of old stackoverflow answers, github issues, etc that are misleading.

Thanks!

#4

Thanks for the info, I will adjust my answer, as I replied before just out of my head.