Morning! Firstly, big thank you for creating super...
# support-questions-legacym
M/\X
04/27/2022, 7:05 AMMorning! Firstly, big thank you for creating supertokens, loving it so far. However I'm getting stuck adding additional fields to the sign up form, following the guide here: https://supertokens.com/docs/emailpassword/common-customizations/signup-form/adding-fields
I do step 1 and 2 - that all works fine, but then the next part seems to contradict step 2. I am assuming that this is instead of step 2 but it's not clear to me (I'm new to this). Secondly I'm aware supertokens wont store the data from the additional fields, so if I only do step 1 and 2, how do I handle the extra form field data on the backend? Thanks in advance!
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rp_st
04/27/2022, 7:06 AMhey @M/\X
rp_st
04/27/2022, 7:07 AMDo you mean about "Handle form fields on successful Sign-up" step?
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M/\X
04/27/2022, 7:07 AM👋
M/\X
04/27/2022, 7:07 AMIs that step 3 or instead of step 2?
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rp_st
04/27/2022, 7:08 AMthats step 3.
rp_st
04/27/2022, 7:08 AMI guess we should add a "Step 3:" to it
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M/\X
04/27/2022, 7:09 AMAh ok - thanks for that. The thing thats confusing me is it seems to imply that I replace the code I wrote inside EmailPassword.init({}) on step 2?
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rp_st
04/27/2022, 7:09 AMah right. You don't have to raplce it. You need to add that code as well.
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M/\X
04/27/2022, 7:09 AMahhh
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rp_st
04/27/2022, 7:10 AMand you can use the user metaddata recipe to store the extra info
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M/\X
04/27/2022, 7:10 AMThe rest of the code was the same but the stuff from step 2 was missing so it threw me off
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rp_st
04/27/2022, 7:10 AMi see. we will make chanegs to the docs.
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M/\X
04/27/2022, 7:10 AMWith regards to meta data, do you mean this part? https://supertokens.com/docs/emailpassword/common-customizations/usermetadata/about
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rp_st
04/27/2022, 7:10 AMyes
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M/\X
04/27/2022, 7:11 AMFab - I will look into that today, thank you very much for your help!
M/\X
04/27/2022, 7:12 AMOne last question:
Regarding the steps here: https://supertokens.com/docs/emailpassword/common-customizations/redirect-to-auth
Can the query param ?redirectToPath=/somepath be added to the base path of '/auth' to send the user onto to somewhere else? Haven't tried it out yet as just planning
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rp_st
04/27/2022, 7:13 AMim not sure i understand that question
rp_st
04/27/2022, 7:13 AMcould you elaborate?
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M/\X
04/27/2022, 7:13 AMSure!
M/\X
04/27/2022, 7:14 AMI want to send a user to website.com/auth from another page. However I want to control where that user goes next, not just return them to website.com. Will sending the user to website.com/auth?redirectToPath=/profile send the user to the profile route? I'm just checking I've interpreted the docs correctly here
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rp_st
04/27/2022, 7:16 AMYes. You can. See this: https://supertokens.com/docs/emailpassword/common-customizations/redirecting-post-login
rp_st
04/27/2022, 7:17 AM Copy code
if (context.redirectToPath !== undefined) {
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}return context.redirectToPath;m
M/\X
04/27/2022, 7:17 AMHow about if I wanted the sign up flow to be different to the sign in flow?
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rp_st
04/27/2022, 7:17 AMThe
contextcontext.isNewUserfalsem
M/\X
04/27/2022, 7:18 AMFantastic - will also have a look into this today
M/\X
04/27/2022, 7:18 AMI really appreciate the speedy support, thank you very much @rp_st !
M/\X
04/27/2022, 10:48 AMHey @rp_st , is there a simple way to get the userID for the newly created user next to formFields on step 3 here: https://supertokens.com/docs/emailpassword/common-customizations/signup-form/adding-fields
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rp_st
04/27/2022, 10:53 AMYea. I think it would be response.user.id
rp_st
04/27/2022, 10:53 AMCheck the type of response
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M/\X
04/27/2022, 10:54 AMah fantastic that worked a treat - thank you