Let’s say a person comes to my site, does some stuff that saves data to the user (as an anonymous user because they’re not logged in), and subsequently logs into their existing user account. How can I attach that new data they saved to their existing user account? It works fine if the user is a ne…

I ran into exactly this recently and solved it with a simple cookie (read on for deets). As you note, for new users it works fine to save data to the “Current User” which then gets attached automagically when that anonymous user converts to a registered user – at least within the lifetime of the co…

This video is helpful, may be worth adding to Stakk.co

Wow, above and beyond, thanks @keith ! I’m going to try one other method first that I think will be simpler, albeit not as cool as yours, but I think your approach is going to be perfect for some people, especially when Oauth is involved. I’ll post here if my method works.

I literally had just gotten that working, so perfect timing. Would love to hear what you come up with. I’m sure there are several other ways to skin that same cat!

Nice in depth tutorial @Keith Before I go down the rabbit hole with this, would this method help with addressing the issue with Safari ITP? I need to basically set a cookie on session before redirect as outlined here: https://help.shopify.com/en/api/guides/itp-impact Thanks in advance!

Sorry @dan8 , while I skimmed that link, I don’t have much interest in Shopify and I don’t really understand what the application here is. However, you can test, right? And actually experimenting with libraries like the one I mention in this thread is easier than ever. Search for my post on my (“Kar…

Thanks @keith I will check that out. I worked out that the solving of the issue vs time vs benefit isn’t worth it right now so will address it further down the line. It’s an interesting one though as it’s affecting a number of websites and applications out there. It’s based on Apple’s Safari browse…

Hi Keith, Is there any extra step to be done here for initialising Cookies? I am getting such errors. [Screenshot 2020-05-09 at 5.41.25 PM] [Screenshot 2020-05-09 at 5.44.18 PM] Thanks, Mukesh

I managed to get it solved. Two key learnings: While putting javascript code that has dynamic elements, putting single quotes is very important. e.g. It will work: Cookies.set(‘TempID’, 'Result of step 1 (Create a new Cust…)‘s unique id’); This will NOT work: Cookies.set(‘TempID’, Result of s…

How to attach anonymous data to existing user after they log in?

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keith June 28, 2018, 6:55pm 3

BTW, I did a short screen demo to put my comments above in context:

vimeo.com/277521133

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