Hello, I’d like to create and retrieve a user via the API using an external_id. The external_id would be an integer that references an ID in our internal database. This is not SSO related. I’m following the documentation but I can’t seem to get it to work. I can create the user but I cannot retrie…

Thanks for your reply. I think that means we cannot use external_id, because we don’t want to enable DiscourseConnect . We don’t want to replace Discourse authentication. We’ll probably have to create the user via API, then store the Discourse user.id in our system and reference them that way.

Using external_id via API

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simon January 23, 2023, 10:35pm 2

Is DiscourseConnect enabled on your site? If not, you need to find the provider name of your authenticator and use that in the request. Some details about this are here: Find a user by their identity provider 'external ID'.

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Using external_id via API

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