Pre User Registration Hook not persisting user data

[stephen2]

I’m trying to update the user email_verified status flag in a pre-registration hook to suppress sending the verification email for a certain connection type. I use multiple connections with different use cases. The pre-registration hook appears to update the user and returns the response(seen in logs), however, the data isn’t persisted to the user data. It just doesn’t update the email_verified flag.

Code snippet.

module.exports = function (user, context, cb) {
  var response = {};
  
  console.log("Email Verified Suppression: context DATA", context);
 
  response.user = user;
   
  const AdvocatesConnectionName = "Advocate";
  if (context.connection.name === AdvocatesConnectionName) {
     response.user.email_verified = true;
  }
  
    console.log("Email Verified Suppression EXIT: context DATA", response);
  
  cb(null, response);
};

Am I using this pre-hook wrong?

Side note: The Auth0 documentation is rich in articles but hard to follow connecting articles, contradictory and somewhat unclear.

[dan.woda]

Hi @stephen2,

I don’t think you will be able to prevent sending the verification email this way unfortunately.

I have seen this similarly implemented by turning off email verification entirely (this can be done in the email templates page of the dashboard), then using a post reg hook or a rule to send out email verification to the connections of your choosing. There are many ways to configure this, I would be happy to walk through them more granularly if necessary.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,
Dan

[Chipadeedoodah]

Also, if you’re able to point us to the unclear or contradictory documentation, we’d love to clean that up for you.