Assigning Default Roles to a User on Sign up Using Auth0 Actions

Improve your user management with seamless role assignment!
In this video, Okta developer advocate ‪@carlaustabile‬ walks through how to add default roles to users on sign-up with Auth0 actions.
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Relevant links:
🔵 Explore Flows and Trigger: auth0.com/docs...
🔵 node-auth0 GitHub repo:
github.com/aut...
🔵 Management API Reference:
auth0.github.i...
🔵 Corresponding blog post: auth0.com/blog...
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Roles vs Permissions
01:19 Creating a new role
02:46 Using a management API
03:49 Brief overview of Auth0 Actions
04:35 Flows and Triggers documentation
06:42 Creating our custom action
22:54 Adding our action to the flow
25:24 Recap and conclusions
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[@JoshuaMFrancis]

Thanks for sharing how to assign a default role with actions for a machine-to-machine application, can you please share the same for a Single Page Application client? Thanks.

[@cahumada85]

Excelent Thanks!

[@user-bb9yr2bp3h]

Note that the role assigned in the custom action applies to the issued token. This is a very important detail. Otherwise you would need to logout and login again. To have the new permissions of that role in the permissions claim.

[@alexfrancis6091]

Hey, how can I send the role of a user from the frontend? I don't want to assign a default user role, rather I want to set it based on if the user decides to sign up as role A or role B

[@carlaustabile]

Hey! Without having all context about your app architecture, one approach could be getting the role in the frontend and then pass it to your backend or API, then your backend can make a call to the Auth0 Management API and assign the role through there. Hope this helps !

[@PriyankaSharma-cc5ou]

Hi,
I need help! How can I integrate Auth0 authentication into the login process and add new fields like "firstname" and "lastname"? I also want to retrieve these names and pass them to the backend using a webhook.
Can anyone help me out?

[@OktaDev]

Hi! To integrate Auth0 you can use one of our SDKs depending on the language/framework and application type you have, here's a link to all the SDKs we support: auth0.com/docs/libraries
Then, to add new fields in the sign-up process you can use Custom Prompts and customize the sign-up or login pages to fit your needs: auth0.com/docs/customize/login-pages/universal-login/customize-signup-and-login-prompts
Hope this helps!
-Carla

[@fawzytat8498]

Thank you! That worked. btw the code in the video is correct, the one at the blog isn't.
the one at the blog should be
if (
event.authorization &&
event.authorization.roles &&
event.authorization.roles.length > 0
) {
return;
}

[@OktaDev]

Thank you! the blog is up to date now.

[@kingjune6685]

how do i assign a username automatically on sign up

[@SahilBhosale08]

By passing username in the request body, in the SignUp API

[@fawzytat8498]

Can you explain how to do the same for login from a react native app? which client ID, secret and domain I should use in this case?

[@carlastabile-okta]

Hello! thanks for your comment! Without having much info on your use case I'd that if you need to interact with the Management API (which is the case to assign roles) you need to have an M2M application on Auth0 that connects to your server and those would be the credentials (domain, clientID and clientSecret) that you'd need to use. Hopefully this helps!

[@AlexCage19]

Considering that hardcoding role ID in action is not what people usually do it would require to pull and filter role by name as well. Also creating separate application for Auth0 actions. Taking into account that everything should be put into some king of scripts to be run by CLI as doing everything by hand from UI is just for demo purposes
it seems like too much effort for something that should have come out out of the box

[@Lluminor]

Light theme 😢

[@carlaustabile]

I know 😅 I code with dark theme but I need my browser brightttttt

[@flavb83music]

lmao 25 minutes to get roles from a user wth
this is not satisfying Otkta!
(the video is good btw)

[@carlaustabile]

Glad you like it. It actually takes way less time but you have to put up with my brain dumping and singing skills 😂 wondering if you’d prefer this in like a RUclips short format? 🤔